We propose an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) heuristic for both discrete and continuous cases of the Berth Allocation Problem.
A very broad set of instances were used and our heuristic provided good solutions within low computational time.
A sensitivity analysis was reported by changing the number of ships and berths.
Statistical tests were performed over the obtained results.
Our ALNS produced high quality results and was superior to the competing algorithms on most instances.