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Simulated Global Empty Containers Repositioning Using Agent-Based Modelling
Systems, 2023 Due to an ever-increasing movement of containers across the globe in line with the economic boom, the trade imbalance and issues related to empty containers have become inevitable.
Alaa Abdelshafie +2 more
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Optimizing sustainable hub depot locations for empty container logistics in Slovenia using particle swarm optimization [PDF]
Scientific ReportsContainers account for 16% of all tonnage transported by sea. Therefore, the efficient repositioning of empty containers is a necessary, albeit often unprofitable, activity.
Danijela Tuljak-Suban
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Multi-period empty container repositioning approach for multimodal transportation
Measurement + Control, 2023 Due to the trade imbalance and poor management, a large number of empty containers are piled up after unpacking in importing regions, while the export-oriented areas are in urgent need of empty containers for replenishment.
Meiyan Chi +4 more
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Joint Optimization of Inventory and Repositioning for Sea Empty Container Based on Queuing Theory
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Approximately 20% of global container transportation activities are used for empty container repositioning, which does not generate profit margins. For container supply ports, in addition to periodically transporting excess empty containers to container ...
Qing-Bin Wang +2 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The optimization of empty container repositioning nets has become an essential problem in low-carbon port cooperation. This paper proposed three optimization models of multi-port low-carbon empty container repositioning considering threshold under input ...
Xin Tang +3 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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Container repositioning management in liner shipping industry [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2013 Managing empty containers in shipping industry plays an important role to increase the profitability on marine shipping industry. This paper presents an empirical investigation to detect influential factors in container transportation and estimates the ...
Nasser Saeidi +3 more
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Immunity-based evolutionary algorithm for optimal global container repositioning in liner shipping [PDF]
, 2010 Global container repositioning in liner shipping has always been a challenging problem in container transportation as the global market in maritime logistics is complex and competitive.
Lau, HYK, Mak, KL, Wong, EYC
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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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Promet (Zagreb), 2012 Within the whole world container traffic, the largest share of containers is in the status of repositioning. Container repositioning results from the need for harmonization between the point of empty container accumulation and the point of demand, and ...
Jakov Karmelić +2 more
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