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Thermal study of a transport container [PDF]
, 2007 A thermal study of a container for international transport has been carried out in order to determine the temperature distributions. Several experimental conditions such as cooling modes, the onset of defrosting, the existence of cargo inside the ...
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Forecasting Empty Container Volumes
The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2011 AbstractThe accumulation and repositioning of empty containers have become acute problems for container ports and are expected to intensify in the future given the expected growth in trade imbalances among trading nations. These problems are major costs and operational challenges for container ports.
Diaz, Rafael +2 more
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EDIS, 2005 This document explains what procedures are involved in creating a legally empty container. This document is PI-3, one of a series of the Pesticide Information Office, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ...
Thomas W. Dean +2 more
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Increasing the safety and operational efficiency of container transportation
Безопасность техногенных и природных систем, 2021 Introduction. Currently, there is a logistic problem in container transportation technology related to the transportation of empty freight containers, as returnable containers, since an empty container takes up as much space as a full one.
A. A. Korotkiy +2 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 2021 In the maritime industry, the management of empty containers is a signi fi cant issue whose costs account for a large proportion of the total world fl eet running costs.
Dung-Ying Lin, Chieh-Ju Juan
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, 2023 Although some movements of empty containers are needed due to imbalances between inbound and outbound goods flows in specific geographical areas, the transport of empty containers could be performed more efficiently. This report outlines results from the project “Increasing transport efficiency through reducing positioning of empty containers ...
Santén, Vendela +5 more
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PLANNING EMPTY CONTAINER RELOCATIONS UNDER UNCERTAINTY
The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2011 <p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Reusable packaging often accumulates downstream in supply chains, resulting in non-revenue-earning relocations. This paper presents a reliable optimisation model under supply and demand uncertainty. Instead of using deterministic forecasted values, we propose a fixed recourse stochastic program that embeds the approximated ...
Bean, Willemiena Lodewika +1 more
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Sustainability, 2021 Both China Railway Express (CRE) companies and international liner companies are faced with the problem of empty container repositioning. In order to reduce empty container repositioning cost and realize their sustainable development, this paper studies ...
Lei Xing, Hong Yan, Yandong Yin, Qi Xu
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An Analytical Approach for Container Investment Decisions
İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2022 In the container transportation, shipping operators are to frequently use own containers for the transportation facilities. Such approaches, however, sometimes may not lead to true decision because of high first investment cost or investment risk in ...
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SustainabilityContainer drayage involves the transportation of containers by trucks. Although the distance is relatively short compared to maritime and rail transport, container drayage accounts for 25% to 40% of the total container transportation costs and ...
Xuhui Yu, Yin Feng, Cong He, Chang Liu
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