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An Optimization Model of Railway Empty Container Allocation Based on Customer Satisfaction [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 With the rapid development of modern corporate management, customer satisfaction evaluation has been applied to the management of many companies. Railway empty container allocation not only involves the cost of the railway transportation, but also ...
Zhang Zhiwei, Li Xiaohong
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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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Impact of Second-Tier Container Port Facilities on Drayage Operation
Logistics, 2022 Background: An increasing number of container and chassis staging, “dray-off”, drop yard, and depot facilities are being established outside of North American marine container terminals.
Samaneh Shiri +3 more
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Model for Collaboration among Carriers to Reduce Empty Container Truck Trips
Information, 2020 In recent years, intermodal transport has become an increasingly attractive alternative to freight shippers. However, the current intermodal freight transport is not as efficient as it could be.
Majbah Uddin, Nathan Huynh
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An Analysis of the Circular Economy Practices of Pesticide Container Waste in Pakistan
Recycling, 2022 Empty pesticide container recycling helps control nonpoint source pollution and provides alternative sources for basic materials. This article investigates end users’ adoption of recycling their pesticide container waste and investigates the determinants
Ali Raza +6 more
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Analysis of empty container management
Pomorstvo, 2022 Shipping containers are known as a crucial equipment for global trade. Most of their lifespan containers are spending empty, being in process of repositioning or sitting in a yard. Increasing trade imbalances globally set up empty container logistics as one of the main concerns in container shipping industry.
Blažina, Antonio +3 more
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Container truck transportation routing as a Mixed Fleet Heterogeneous Dial-a-Ride Problem [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 In this paper, a new variant of the Heterogeneous Dial-a-Ride Problem (HDARP) is innovatively applied to a routing problem of trucks picking up and delivering full and empty containers in the logistic chain, including container depots, importers ...
Amine Masmoudi Mohamed +4 more
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Journal of Transportation and Logistics, 2023 This study aimed to propose an optimization model for slot allocation and contractual pricing that considers spot and contractual shipments and empty container repositioning under a stochastic environment.
Ercan Kurtuluş
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Prerequisites for the modelling of empty container supply chains
Engineering Management in Production and Services, 2017 Containerisation of freight transport significantly facilitates the flow of traded goods between remote destinations. The most important container transport routes link Asia with North America and Europe.
Kuźmicz Katarzyna Anna, Pesch Erwin
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Inventory model for empty container reposition problem considering quality dependent returns and port capacity constraint [PDF]
Decision Science LettersIn this study, an Economic Return Quantity (ERQ) model for the Empty Container Reposition (ECR) problem using the reverse logistics (RL) approach is developed.
Lukmandono Lukmandono +2 more
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