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Decision Support for Optimal Repositioning of Containers in a Feeder System

Promet (Zagreb), 2008
The transport of empty containers represents a seriousproblem in the fast growing sphere of maritime container transport.The most widespread type of container transport organizationin maritime transport is the hub and spoke mode, whichenables the ...
Danijela Tuljak-Suban, Elen Twrdy
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Container Scheduling considering Customer Satisfaction in the Context of Internal Circulation [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
As China’s foreign trade continues to progress, a trade surplus in inland container transportation has emerged. At the same time, businesses need to not only focus on transportation tasks but also prioritize customer service requirements.
Wang Xiangyue
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A Branch-and-Price-and-Cut Algorithm for the Inland Container Transportation Problem with Limited Depot Capacity

Applied Sciences
As an effective solution to the first- and last-mile logistics of door-to-door intermodal container transportation, inland container transportation involves transporting containers by truck between terminals, depots, and customers within a local area ...
Yujian Song, Yuting Zhang
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Designing container shipping network under changing demand and freight rates

Transport, 2010
This paper focuses on the optimization of container shipping network and its operations under changing cargo demand and freight rates. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer non-linear programming problem (MINP) with an objective of maximizing the ...
Chao Chen, Qingcheng Zeng
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Collaborative Optimization of Container Liner Slot Allocation and Empty Container Repositioning Within Port Clusters

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
The imbalance between supply and demand for slot resources and empty containers has led to resource waste and excessive operating costs for liner companies.
Wenmin Wang, Cuijie Diao, Wenqing He, Zhihong Jin, Zaili Yang   +4 more
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Control System of Storage Containers Filling in the Uranyl Nitrate Crystallization Process in a Linear Crystallizer

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2018
This article presents a model of a storage container of linear crystallizer. On the base of this model two independent control system of storage containers filling in a uranyl nitrate crystallization process were suggested.
Aleksandr O. Pletnev, Alexey G. Goryunov, Sergey N. Liventsov, Aleksandr I. Gozhimov, Vladimir A. Kasheev, Flavio Manenti   +5 more
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Optimization of empty container allocation for inland freight stations considering stochastic demand. [PDF]

Ocean Coast Manag, 2022
Chen K, Lu Q, Xin X, Yang Z, Zhu L, Xu Q.   +5 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
Toygar A, Yildirim U, İnegöl GM.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Logistic of Empty Containers′ Return in the Liner-Shipping Network

Transport and Telecommunication, 2017
The Maritime Transport is a favoured tool regarding the universal exchanges because it has gone through several evolutions. Indeed, the containerization is considered as one of the most remarkable improvements in the shipping.
Belayachi Naima, Gelareh Shahin, Yachba Khadidja, Bouamrane Karim   +3 more
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An integrating scheduling model for mixed cross-operation in container terminals

Transport, 2012
This paper focuses on the optimization of operation scheduling in container terminals based on mix cross-operation. Mix cross-operation is a scheduling method which allows yard trailers to be shared by different yard cranes in different berths to ...
Chao Chen, Qingcheng Zeng, Zhe Zhang
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