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Empty container repositioning in liner shipping1

Maritime Policy & Management, 2009
The 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, 2010
Owing 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, Won-Young Yun, Ha-Won Kim   +2 more
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An intelligent, empty container dispatching system model using fuzzy set theory and genetic algorithm in the context of industry 4.0

Enterprise Information Systems, 2020
Shipping in ports with unbalanced export and import volumes will have problems of excess as well as shortage of empty containers at the decentralised yards.
Min-Der Ko
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Optimization of Railway Empty Container Transportation

ICTE 2013, 2013
Combining 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, 2017
The 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, Cun Cheng, Zhi-Yuan Luo, Yan-Jie Yao, Yu-Ying Hong   +4 more
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Empty Container Logistics

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, OLIVO, ALESSANDRO, ZUDDAS, PAOLA   +2 more
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Empty container exchange among liner carriers

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2015
Abstract In an attempt to reduce the empty container repositioning costs, this paper studies an empty container allocation problem considering the coordination among liner carriers. We further measure the perceived values of empty container at different ports. The perceived values of empty container at the surplus (deficit) ports are described by the
Jianfeng Zheng, Zhuo Sun, Ziyou Gao
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Container truck scheduling problem under empty container return policy

2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2018
In 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, Liu, Rongfan, Wang, Shijin, Chu, Feng, Chu, Chengbin   +4 more
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Repositioning of empty containers using both standard and foldable containers

Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2015
Advanced 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), 2016
This 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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