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Maritime Empty Container Repositioning

International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, 2014
Maritime shipping containers are important to a number of different industries as they facilitate the reduction of transportation costs. To address the needs of shippers, empty containers need to be repositioned globally between seaports. Since the cost of empty container repositioning (ECR) constitutes a significant element of the total cost of ...
Hossein Khakbaz, Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya   +1 more
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The Use of Fuzzy-Bayes Approach on the Causal Factors of Empty Container Repositioning

Marine Technology Society journal, 2021
Empty container repositioning (ECR) is one of the major bottlenecks of maritime container transportation that should be minimized. To achieve this, it is crucial to reveal the leading causal factors.
B. Kamal
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Empty Container Repositioning

2014
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.Empty container repositioning (ECR) is one of the most important issues in the liner shipping industry. Not only does it have an economic effect on the stakeholders in the container transport chain, but it also has an environmental and sustainability impact on the society since the reduction of empty
Song D-P, Dong J-X
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Empty containers repositioning

Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference, 2010
Since the beginning of containerization, empty containers repositioning has been an on-going issue in the maritime transportation industry. Over the years several research works have been developed in order to face the reposition of empty containers. This paper provides the readers with an accurate overview on methodologies and scientific approaches ...
CIMINO A, DIAZ R, LONGO, Francesco, MIRABELLI, Giovanni   +3 more
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Empty container repositioning problem using a reinforcement learning framework with multi-weight adaptive reward function

Maritime Policy & Management
In logistics networks, empty container congestion and scarcity often stem from trade imbalance and supply-demand mismatch. This paper focuses on the problem of empty container repositioning in maritime logistics and proposes a reinforcement learning ...
Xiaofeng Xu, Xinru Huang, Lianju Wang
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Empty container repositioning - a review

2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2010
Empty container repositioning, arousing coincidentally with the container shipping business, shows its significance nowadays in container control area, in which one of the key issues is the balance of container load and empty container transportation.
null Cong Liu, null Zhibin Jiang, null Feng Chen, null Xiao Liu, null Liming Liu, null Zhou Xu   +5 more
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Regional Repositioning of Empty Containers

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2008
Regional 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, Sotiris Theofanis, Alok Baveja, Neha Mittal   +3 more
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Port dynamic empty container reuse

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2006
In this paper, empty container movements in the Los Angeles and Long Beach (LA/LB) port area are studied in an effort to reduce congestion by optimizing the empty container reuse. The dynamic empty container reuse is modeled analytically, and techniques are developed to optimize empty container operations.
Jula, H., Chassiakos, Anastassios, Ioannou, Petros A., Jula, H., Chassiakos, Anastassios, Ioannou, Petros A.   +5 more
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An Operational Model for Empty Container Management

Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2005
This 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, ZUDDAS, PAOLA, DI FRANCESCO, MASSIMO, MANCA, ANTONIO   +3 more
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Foldable and standard containers in empty container repositioning

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2013
Strategies to reposition empty containers are an unabated issue for shipping companies. This study compares the repositioning costs of foldable containers to those of standard containers. Mathematical models are used to minimize the total relevant cost, which includes the folding/unfolding cost, the inventory storage cost, the container purchasing cost,
Ilkyeong Moon, Anh-Dung Do Ngoc, Rob Konings   +2 more
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