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Reduction of Empty Container Repositioning Costs by Container Sharing

2012
Empty container repositioning is a major cost driver for international container operators. While the share of empty containers of total sea-based container flows is around 20%, consultants estimate the rate of empty container transport for the hinterland even twice as high [1].
Herbert Kopfer, Sebastian Sterzik
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Maritime repositioning of empty containers under uncertain port disruptions

Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2013
This paper addresses the problem of repositioning empty containers in maritime networks under possible port disruptions. Since drastically different futures may occur, the decision making process for dealing with this problem cannot ignore the uncertain nature of its parameters.
DI FRANCESCO, MASSIMO, Lai M, ZUDDAS, PAOLA   +2 more
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Assessment of empty container repositioning policies in maritime transport

The International Journal of Logistics Management, 2013
PurposeEmpty container repositioning is an important issue in the liner shipping industry. Generally stated, two groups of mathematical models have been proposed to tackle this issue. The first group aims to derive time‐dependent origin‐destination matrices that specify the number of empty containers to be repositioned at a decision epoch; the second ...
Dong JX, Xu J, Song DP
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Stochastic Optimization of Empty Container Repositioning of Sea Carriage

Advanced Materials Research, 2011
To improve the efficiency of empty container repositioning for a shipping company, a stochastic optimization model of empty container repositioning of sea carriage was established by chance-constrained programming. The objective function was to minimize the cost of empty container repositioning including shipping, rening and shortage cost. In the model,
Bin Wang, Tao Yang
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Contracting in a shipping market with empty container repositioning

2017 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, 2017
In this paper, we study a maritime transportation market with one ocean carrier providing maritime transportation services between two container ports. There are two freight forwarders in the two ports. Due to the imbalance of the realized demands between the two ports, the ocean carrier needs to reposition empty containers from the surplus port to the
Rongying Chen, null Mingzhu Yu
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Liner Shipping Cargo Allocation with Repositioning of Empty Containers

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, 2011
Abstract This paper is concerned with the cargo allocation problem considering empty repositioning of containers for a liner shipping company. The aim is to maximize the profit of transported cargo in a network, subject to the cost and availability of empty containers.
Berit Dangaard Brouer, David Pisinger, Simon Spoorendonk   +2 more
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Modelling of empty containers repositioning problem

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2020
Hop Nguyen, Trang Luong
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Empty container reposition planning for intra-Asia liner shipping

Maritime Policy & Management, 2008
This paper addresses empty container reposition planning by plainly considering safety stock management and geographical regions. This plan could avoid drawback in practice which collects mass empty containers at a port then repositions most empty containers at a time.
Cheng-Min Feng, Chia-Hui Chang
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Tactical vessel deployment and empty container repositioning considering container turnover times

Computers & Industrial Engineering
Global trade imbalances lead to the common occurrence of empty container flows from export-dominated to import-dominated ports in container shipping networks. Efficient strategies for repositioning empty containers are essential for addressing deficits at major ports.
Xi Xiang, Changchun Liu, Shuai Jia
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Modelling Empty Container Repositioning Logistics

2022
Dong-Ping Song, Jingxin Dong
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