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Regional Repositioning of Empty Containers
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2008Regional repositioning of empty containers involves empty container movement between regional importers, marine terminals, depots, and export customers. This chain movement generates unproductive empty vehicle miles in the region. The problem of empty vehicle miles becomes more prominent because empty container depots are located close to the port and
Maria Boile +3 more
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An Operational Model for Empty Container Management
Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2005This paper proposes a mathematical programming approach for empty container management. Since directional imbalances in trade activities result in a surplus or shortage of empty containers in ports and depots, their management can be thought of as a min cost flow problem whose arcs represent services routes, inventory links and decisions concerning the
OLIVO, ALESSANDRO +3 more
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Empty container repositioning in liner shipping1
Maritime Policy & Management, 2009The efficient and effective management of empty containers is an important problem in the shipping industry. Not only does it have an economic effect, but it also has an environmental and sustainability impact, since the reduction of empty container movements will reduce fuel consumption and reduce congestion and emissions.
Dong-Ping Song, Jonathan Carter
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Positioning empty containers under dependent demand
The 40th International Conference on Computers & Indutrial Engineering, 2010Owing to trade imbalance, shipping companies position empty containers between ports or depots periodically. The most difficult problem for positioning is that it is not easy to know the exact amounts of empty containers required in the future. The paper deals with the problem of positioning empty containers in a port area with multiple depots ...
Quang-Vinh Dang +2 more
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Optimization of Railway Empty Container Transportation
ICTE 2013, 2013Combining the features of the railway container allocation and the state-of-art of the empty container management (ECM), in this paper, we give a complete discrimination of the ECM, and propose a method for ECM based on customer value and transport cost. Starting from the study of the railway container customer value, a railway container customer value
Yinghong Li, Shuangyang Liu
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Empty Container Verification Using Deep Learning
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications, 2017The inspection of X-ray cargo images is a challenging visual search task for security department. With the increase of import and export trade, it is necessary to develop an intelligent algorithm to improve the accuracy and efficiency of inspection by assisting security inspectors to check the cargo. This paper is proposed a method to solve the problem
Wei Shi +4 more
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2009
This book provides an accurate overview of current logistic pratices concerningthe management of empty containers in the context of international trade. This information is exploited to develop new optimization models involving more information than in the past, enhancing the analysis of these problems and providing high-quality solutions in terms of ...
DI FRANCESCO, MASSIMO +2 more
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This book provides an accurate overview of current logistic pratices concerningthe management of empty containers in the context of international trade. This information is exploited to develop new optimization models involving more information than in the past, enhancing the analysis of these problems and providing high-quality solutions in terms of ...
DI FRANCESCO, MASSIMO +2 more
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Container truck scheduling problem under empty container return policy
2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2018In this paper, we study a container truck scheduling problem under empty return policy(CTS-ECR) issued by shipping lines. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to consider the return policy into the truck scheduling problem. In the backhaul area, trucking companies provide delivery service of full or empty freight containers.
Liu, Ming +4 more
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Repositioning of empty containers using both standard and foldable containers
Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2015Advanced technologies are expected to drive practical applications that can reduce transportation and storage costs via novel space-saving foldable containers. To use them efficiently, shipping companies need a systematic algorithm that will simultaneously reposition foldable containers along with standard ones currently in use.
Ilkyeong Moon, Hwajin Hong
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Management of empty container repositioning considering leveling marine container logistics
2016 Techno-Ocean (Techno-Ocean), 2016This paper proposes a planning system for empty container repositioning. It is said that movement of empty containers account for thirty percentage of movement of all containers. Moreover, empty container repositioning cost no less than 234 million dollars in 2010.
Heng Wang, Kenji Tanaka
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