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Tugboat scheduling for container ports
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020Abstract Container ports play an important role in global logistics and supply chains by providing container handling services for container ships. In a port, container ships usually need the assistance of tugboats in order to undergo berthing, shifting, and unberthing movements.
Wei, Xiaoyang +3 more
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Container transshipment and port competition
Maritime Policy & Management, 2013The purpose of this paper is to study container port competition for transshipment cargo in duopoly market. We develop the linear container handling demand function which incorporates transshipment traffic, and apply a non-cooperative two-stage game to a vertical-structure seaport market with ports as upstream players and shipping lines as downstream ...
Bae, M.J. +3 more
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CONTAINERS AND THEIR EFFECT IN DURRES PORT [PDF]
Romanian Economic and Business Review, 2013 Since the introduction of containerization, container throughput in the world has continuously increased. Today more than 90% of the world cargoes are transported by sea, and containerized cargoes are increasing year after year. The above tendency of world container transportation has given a significant impact on Albanian ports as well and especially ...
Osman Metalla, Andri Koxhaj
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Container Security at Sea and in Ports
2018This chapter discusses maritime container security in practice. It introduces one of the major threats to container security at sea, namely piracy, as well as container security in ports. Also, the obstacles and challenges of the tools in securing container security in ports are discussed.
Girish Gujar, Adolf K. Y. Ng, Zaili Yang
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Models of Container Port Security
2019Maritime security issues and their framework, the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and its controversial implications and port competition theories have been thoroughly reviewed. A study on the long-term analysis on the effects of security initiatives on EU seaports is needed to fill the research gaps which have been identified. This chapter focuses
Xufan Zhang, Michael Roe
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Conclusions for Container Port Security
2019The aim of this book was to analyse the impacts of the CSI programme on EU container seaport competition. In order to achieve this aim, five objectives were developed in Chapter 1. Research Objectives 1 and 2 and partial Objectives 3 and 4 were addressed in the literature reviews (Chapters 2 and 3) and conceptual model development process (Chapter 4 ...
Xufan Zhang, Michael Roe
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Maritime Policy & Management, 1997
In this paper the world's busiest container ports are examined in the context of their geographical locations. There are locational attributes that favour the top-ranked ports and these attributes can be modified to enhance the commercial appeal of particular seaport sites and situations.
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In this paper the world's busiest container ports are examined in the context of their geographical locations. There are locational attributes that favour the top-ranked ports and these attributes can be modified to enhance the commercial appeal of particular seaport sites and situations.
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