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Liner shipping service network design with empty container repositioning

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2011
Abstract This paper proposes a liner shipping service network design problem with combined hub-and-spoke and multi-port-calling operations and empty container repositioning. It first introduces a novel concept – segment – defined as a pair of ordered ports served by one shipping line and subsequently develops a mixed-integer linear programming model ...
Meng, Q., Wang, S.
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Segment-based alteration for container liner shipping network design

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2015
Container liner shipping companies only partially alter their shipping networks to cope with the changing demand, rather than entirely redesign and change the network. In view of the practice, this paper proposes an optimal container liner shipping network alteration problem based on an interesting idea of segment, which is a sequence of legs from a ...
Wang, Shuaian, Liu, Zhiyuan, Meng, Qiang
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Is the container liner shipping industry an oligopoly?

Transport Policy, 2009
This paper focuses on the question whether or not the container liner shipping industry is an oligopoly. Although liner shipping literature has been occupied with this question, few authors have examined the market structure of the containerised liner shipping industry. The study of the market form at trade level fills in a gap in the literature.
Christa Sys
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Container liner shipping network design with shipper’s dual preference

Computers & Operations Research, 2021
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Cheng, Qin, Wang, Chuanxu
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Czechs on ships: liners, containers and the sea

Journal of Tourism History, 2021
The essay juxtaposes, as in a poetic metaphor, Czech sea voyages to Southeast Asia in the late colonial era, as described in the travellers’ writings, and the author’s recent voyage on a container ...
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Optimisation in Container Liner Shipping

2017
We will give an overview of several decision problem encountered in liner shipping. We will cover problems on the strategic, tactical and operational planning levels as well as problems that can be considered at two planning levels simultaneously. Furthermore, we will shortly discuss some related problems in terminals, geographical bottlenecks for ...
Mulder, Judith, Dekker, Rommert
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Schedule Design and Container Routing in Liner Shipping

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2011
A liner shipping company seeks to provide liner services with shorter transit time compared with the benchmark of market-level transit time because of the ever-increasing competition. When the itineraries of its liner service routes are determined, the liner shipping company designs the schedules of the liner routes such that the wait time at ...
Wang, S., Meng, Q.
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Bunker Procurement Planning for Container Liner Shipping Companies

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2015
This paper investigates the bunker procurement planning (BPP) problem arising for a container liner shipping company that plans to purchase bunker from both bunker futures contracts and the spot market to hedge the risk in fluctuation of and increases in bunker prices.
Qiang Meng, Yadong Wang, Yuquan Du
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Liner ship fleet deployment with container transshipment operations

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2012
This paper proposes a liner ship fleet deployment (LSFD) problem with container transshipment operations. The proposed problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming model which allows container transshipment operations at any port, any number of times, without explicitly defining the container transshipment variables.
Wang, S., Meng, Q.
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Competition and the container liner shipping industry

2018
The general objective of this chapter is to assess the competitive conditions of the container liner shipping industry. To do this, it takes a closer look at four key issues in container liner shipping: pricing as an indicator of competition, market concentration, product development and differentiation, and (de)regulation.
Hilde Meersman, Christa Sys, Eddy Van de Voorde, Thierry Vanelslander   +3 more
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