I still wonder about stowage plans for these. I guess t's the next level down to solve approximately after the route plan for each container. They come later and have constraints that are more contingent than the global system level view.
Ballpark, optimistically, shore cranes can do 30-50 moves per hour, 2 or 4, maybe 6 cranes per vessel, and you have to unpack shell layer by layer.
* Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV): 14,501 TEU and higher
* New Panamax: 10,000-14,500 TEU
* Post-Panamax: 5,101-10,000 TEU
* Panamax: 3,001-5,100 TEU
24,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units), say 12k 40-foot containers
There is a talk by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) online by a researcher in this space, which is a pretty good introduction to the problem of stowage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltz4G-lPdg
As somebody actively involved in the space, there are lots of ways you can make life easier for yourself. Planning in blocks per hatch cover, grouping containers by destination, size, and weight and treating those as mostly interchangeable are table stakes. You then want to send a plan from the ship to the terminal before start of operations, so the terminal can also optimize and shuffle given they know the position of containers in the yard.
Stowage planning is a lot easier if you decide you're going to ignore the details of each container and only occupy yourself with the groups. The end result is very similar for way less work, and you give a lot more flexibility to the terminal to optimize operations.
Ballpark, optimistically, shore cranes can do 30-50 moves per hour, 2 or 4, maybe 6 cranes per vessel, and you have to unpack shell layer by layer.
* Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV): 14,501 TEU and higher
* New Panamax: 10,000-14,500 TEU
* Post-Panamax: 5,101-10,000 TEU
* Panamax: 3,001-5,100 TEU
24,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units), say 12k 40-foot containers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowage_plan_for_container_shi...Stowage plans for ships also have weight, balance, power, and value acceptability criteria beyond availability at a port.
These overheads made me curious enough to write up some napkin math, since they mention cut-and-run early departures from ports.