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The container shipping network design problem with empty container repositioning [PDF]
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2007 This paper addresses the design of container liner shipping service networks by explicitly taking into account empty container repositioning. Two key and interrelated issues, those of deploying ships and containers are usually treated separately by most existing studies on shipping network design.
Shintani, Koichi +3 more
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Ship type decision considering empty container repositioning and foldable containers
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2017 This paper addresses a problem of ship type decision considering empty container repositioning and foldable containers, which determines the capacity of ships deployed in a given shipping route at a tactical level and empty container repositioning between ports at an operational level.
Wang, K, Wang, S, Zhen, L, Qu, X
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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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Optimization of Empty Container Repositioning in Liner Shipping
Business and Management Horizons, 2020 Empty container repositioning (ECR), which arises due to imbalances in world trade, causes extra costs for the container liner carrier companies. Therefore, one of the main objectives of all liner carriers is to reduce ECR costs. Since ECR decisions involve too many parameters, constraints and variables, the plans based on real-life experiences cannot ...
Hüseyin Gençer, M. Hulusi Demir
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Prerequisites for the modelling of empty container supply chains
Engineering Management in Production and Services, 2017 Containerisation of freight transport significantly facilitates the flow of traded goods between remote destinations. The most important container transport routes link Asia with North America and Europe.
Kuźmicz Katarzyna Anna, Pesch Erwin
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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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Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringThis paper proposes a combined optimization method for multi-period empty container repositioning and inventory control based on adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) algorithm, which addresses the limitations of existing research, such as ...
Jiaxin Cai +3 more
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European Transport Research Review, 2019 Introduction The transport of full containers and repositioning of empty containers are essential for the operation of a container logistic enterprise.
Zixuan Peng +3 more
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Systems Science & Control Engineering, 2019 Alliance and non-alliance modes are the typical decision-making problem of strategy layer. Upper layer decision will have direct impact on the lower two layers: tactical layer and operational layer.
Hengzhen Zhang, Lihua Lu, Xiaofeng Wang
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Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringTrade imbalances and equipment shortages are making it increasingly important to coordinate container slot allocation with empty container repositioning on liner services.
Lei Huang +3 more
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