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The transport and logistics sector, which include freight forwarders companies, constitutes a vast network of entities that are central to a good performance in services. With the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the global economy, there was a huge shortage in the number of containers available, thus creating the need to optimize the loading of available equipment to avoid waste and maximize profits from each export. The present work presents a novel approach where a set of restrictions were created that, applied in synergy with the Non-Linear GRG algorithm, aim to allocate the boxes in different consecutive lines until forming a wall, and, therefore, the walls complete the container, in order to maximize the occupancy on it. To validate the proposed approach a prototype was developed and studied in real-world problem where the solutions resulted in occupations around 80% to 90%. Thus, we can foresee the importance of the proposed approach in decision-making regarding container consolidation services.
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Mateus, F., Santos, A.S., Brito, M.F., Madureira, A.M. (2023). A Novel Approach to the Two-Dimensional Cargo Load Problem. In: Abraham, A., Bajaj, A., Gandhi, N., Madureira, A.M., Kahraman, C. (eds) Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications. IBICA 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 649. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27499-2_11
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