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Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2019 Intra-regional container service operators are challenged to design regular and reliable liner services connecting regional ports at the lowest cost and shortest transit time while considering customer demand. This paper focuses on the selection of ports
Noorul Shaiful Fitri Abdul Rahman +3 more
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Reliable Liner Shipping Hub Location Problem Considering Hub Failure
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Hub ports play an important role in reducing the number of container routes and saving the operating costs of liner companies. However, hub failures caused by uncertainties such as natural disasters may cause huge recovery costs.
Qian Wang, Jianfeng Zheng, Xintong Liu
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Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2018 This paper deals multidimensional examination of performances of a trunk line/route of liner container-shipping network serving an intercontinental supply chain by the conventional (Panamax Max) and mega (ULC - Ultra Large Container) ships.
Milan Janić
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Optimization of Empty Container Repositioning in Liner Shipping
Business and Management Horizons, 2020 Empty container repositioning (ECR), which arises due to imbalances in world trade, causes extra costs for the container liner carrier companies. Therefore, one of the main objectives of all liner carriers is to reduce ECR costs. Since ECR decisions involve too many parameters, constraints and variables, the plans based on real-life experiences cannot ...
Hüseyin Gençer, M. Hulusi Demir
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International Practice of Liner Container Shipping Regulation in the Transport System
Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политикаEffective regulatory and legal framework in this field has several positive advantages for the transportation participants. A significant place in the article is given to ensuring the principle of “common carrier” for access of a wide range of consumers ...
I. A. Rusinov, N. V. Shcherbinin
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International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2018 Considering a substantial increase in volumes of the international seaborne trade and drastic climate changes due to carbon dioxide emissions, liner shipping companies have to improve planning of their vessel schedules and improve energy efficiency. This
Maxim A. Dulebenets
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Transshipment hubs are important components of the global container shipping network. Nowadays, hybrid ports are emerging, handling both gateway and transshipment container traffic depending on their significant maritime connectivity.
Qiang Zhang, Shunhao Pu, Ming Yin
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Liner Schedule Design under Port Congestion: A Container Handling Efficiency Selection Mechanism
Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringPort congestion significantly impacts the reliability of container ship schedules. However, the existing research often treats vessel time in port as a random variable, failing to systematically consider the complex impact of port congestion on ship ...
Haibin Qu +3 more
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Fleet deployment and demand fulfillment for container shipping liners [PDF]
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 Abstract This paper models and solves a fleet deployment and demand fulfillment problem for container shipping liners with consideration of the potential overload risk of containers. Given the stochastic weights of transported containers, chance constraints are embedded in the model at the strategic level.
Lu Zhen +4 more
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The impact of seasonal demand fluctuations on service network design of container feeder lines
Journal of Transportation and Logistics, 2016 Customer demand in global supply networks is highly uncertain due to unexpected global and local economic conditions and, in addition, affected by seasonal demand fluctuations for final products.
Olcay Polat, Hans Otto günther
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