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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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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 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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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Empty Container Repositioning

2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS), 2018
Marine logistics is the main mode of transportation for international trade, which uses the container as the carrier. However, the imbalance of global trade development has led to the empty container repositioning (ECR)becoming a key issue for marine logistics.
Qiang Luo, Xiaojun Huang
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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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Optimization of Costs in Empty Container Repositioning

2019
In this study, the empty container repositioning problem in a liner shipping company is considered. The research includes necessary information about the company and maritime transportation, highlighting the importance of empty container storage. As the worldwide containerized trade increases, the container traffic increases.
ERCAN, ELİF, Kizilay, Damla, Çağlar, Öykü, Göçen, Mehmet Yasin   +3 more
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Repositioning empty containers in East and North China ports [PDF]

Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2012
This study proposes a mathematical model for repositioning containers to ports in East and North China. With specially devised links and nodes, the proposed model can consider the strategies that are deployed commonly by liners. Moreover, the formulated problem can be solved rapidly owing to its underlying multi-commodity network structure.
Shih-Liang Chao, Hui-Chuan Yu
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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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An Optimization Model for the Inland Repositioning of Empty Containers

Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2013
The inland repositioning of empty containers is a crucial problem for shipping companies providing door-to-door transport services to customers. This activity consists of the allocation of heterogeneous fleets of empty containers between inland depots and ports, so that they can be properly positioned in anticipation of future customer requests.
OLIVO, ALESSANDRO, DI FRANCESCO, MASSIMO, ZUDDAS, PAOLA   +2 more
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