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Drivers of the unintended use of emptied chemical containers by smallholder farmers [PDF]
BMC Public HealthTo increase agricultural productivity, each year, an estimated two million tonnes of various pesticides are used worldwide. Thus, indiscriminate pesticide use and household use of empty pesticide containers are jeopardizing human health and the ...
Tewodros Mulugeta +2 more
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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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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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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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Analysis of Empty Container Accumulation Problem of Container Ports [PDF]
Journal of Eta Maritime Science, 2018 In this study, the empty container problem is evaluated by quantification of factors related to empty container accumulation as well as alternative ways that can be followed for solutions. The study is mainly constructed as two parts; the first part is
Ünal ÖZDEMİR
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Container truck transportation routing as a Mixed Fleet Heterogeneous Dial-a-Ride Problem [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 In this paper, a new variant of the Heterogeneous Dial-a-Ride Problem (HDARP) is innovatively applied to a routing problem of trucks picking up and delivering full and empty containers in the logistic chain, including container depots, importers ...
Amine Masmoudi Mohamed +4 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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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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Безопасность техногенных и природных систем, 2021 Introduction. Growth of cities and, accordingly, highways influences the quality of air, soil and water resources considerably. Dangerous emissions from cars in the form of sulfur compounds, nitrogen and carbon oxides, acid rain negatively affect people ...
A. A. Korotkiy +3 more
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Forecasting worldwide empty container availability with machine learning techniques
Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2022 Due to imbalances in the global transport of containerised goods, liner shipping companies go to great lengths to match the regional supply and demand for empty containers by transporting equipment from surplus to deficit regions.
Christoph Martius +4 more
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