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Forecasting worldwide empty container availability with machine learning techniques [PDF]
Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2022 Due to imbalances in the global transport of containerised goods, liner shipping companies go to great lengths to match the regional supply and demand for empty containers by transporting equipment from surplus to deficit regions.
Christoph Martius +4 more
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Investigation of empty container shortage based on SWARA-ARAS methods in the COVID-19 era. [PDF]
Eur Transp Res Rev, 2022 A shortage of empty containers has become a global crisis with more devastating effects than during previous periods when combined with various problems arising from the COVID-19, such as an increase in an imbalance of global trade between supply and ...
Toygar A, Yildirim U, İnegöl GM.
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Joint Optimization of Inventory and Repositioning for Sea Empty Container Based on Queuing Theory
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Approximately 20% of global container transportation activities are used for empty container repositioning, which does not generate profit margins. For container supply ports, in addition to periodically transporting excess empty containers to container ...
Qing-Bin Wang +2 more
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Multi-period empty container repositioning approach for multimodal transportation
Measurement + Control, 2023 Due to the trade imbalance and poor management, a large number of empty containers are piled up after unpacking in importing regions, while the export-oriented areas are in urgent need of empty containers for replenishment.
Meiyan Chi +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The optimization of empty container repositioning nets has become an essential problem in low-carbon port cooperation. This paper proposed three optimization models of multi-port low-carbon empty container repositioning considering threshold under input ...
Xin Tang +3 more
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Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringThis paper proposes a combined optimization method for multi-period empty container repositioning and inventory control based on adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) algorithm, which addresses the limitations of existing research, such as ...
Jiaxin Cai +3 more
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European Transport Research Review, 2021 Background With the steady growth of trade between China and Europe, the number of trains in CHINA RAILWAY Express has steadily increased under the Belt and Road Initiative. By the end of 2019, more than 21,000 trains have been operated.
Yinying Tang +3 more
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Electronic Research Archive, 2023 Liner companies have responded to escalating trade conflicts and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by forming alliances and implementing streamlined approaches to manage empty containers, which has strengthened the resilience of their supply chains ...
Xu Xin +5 more
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Drivers of the unintended use of emptied chemical containers by smallholder farmers [PDF]
BMC Public HealthTo increase agricultural productivity, each year, an estimated two million tonnes of various pesticides are used worldwide. Thus, indiscriminate pesticide use and household use of empty pesticide containers are jeopardizing human health and the ...
Tewodros Mulugeta +2 more
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Optimizing sustainable hub depot locations for empty container logistics in Slovenia using particle swarm optimization [PDF]
Scientific ReportsContainers account for 16% of all tonnage transported by sea. Therefore, the efficient repositioning of empty containers is a necessary, albeit often unprofitable, activity.
Danijela Tuljak-Suban
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