The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2
presents an introduction to storage yard design and operations.
Section 3 presents our classification scheme for the storage yard
operations literature. Next, we provide an in-depth overview of
the pertinent literature, divided by decision problem. In Section 4,
we first go into literature on yard design. Control rules (2)–(4) are
then presented in Sections 5–7, followed by a discussion in Section
8 of the integration of two or more of the base decision problems.
In Section 9 we take a step back to reconsider the storage
yard operations from an Industrial Engineering and Operational
Excellence perspective to challenge the current operational paradigms.
Lastly, Section 10 presents research avenues based on current
trends and developments in the container terminal industry.