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Empty containers repositioning

Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference, 2010
Since the beginning of containerization, empty containers repositioning has been an on-going issue in the maritime transportation industry. Over the years several research works have been developed in order to face the reposition of empty containers. This paper provides the readers with an accurate overview on methodologies and scientific approaches ...
CIMINO A, DIAZ R, LONGO, Francesco, MIRABELLI, Giovanni   +3 more
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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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Port dynamic empty container reuse

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2006
In this paper, empty container movements in the Los Angeles and Long Beach (LA/LB) port area are studied in an effort to reduce congestion by optimizing the empty container reuse. The dynamic empty container reuse is modeled analytically, and techniques are developed to optimize empty container operations.
Jula, H., Chassiakos, Anastassios, Ioannou, Petros A., Jula, H., Chassiakos, Anastassios, Ioannou, Petros A.   +5 more
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An Operational Model for Empty Container Management

Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2005
This paper proposes a mathematical programming approach for empty container management. Since directional imbalances in trade activities result in a surplus or shortage of empty containers in ports and depots, their management can be thought of as a min cost flow problem whose arcs represent services routes, inventory links and decisions concerning the
OLIVO, ALESSANDRO, ZUDDAS, PAOLA, DI FRANCESCO, MASSIMO, MANCA, ANTONIO   +3 more
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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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Positioning empty containers under dependent demand

The 40th International Conference on Computers & Indutrial Engineering, 2010
Owing to trade imbalance, shipping companies position empty containers between ports or depots periodically. The most difficult problem for positioning is that it is not easy to know the exact amounts of empty containers required in the future. The paper deals with the problem of positioning empty containers in a port area with multiple depots ...
Quang-Vinh Dang, Won-Young Yun, Ha-Won Kim   +2 more
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Optimization of Railway Empty Container Transportation

ICTE 2013, 2013
Combining the features of the railway container allocation and the state-of-art of the empty container management (ECM), in this paper, we give a complete discrimination of the ECM, and propose a method for ECM based on customer value and transport cost. Starting from the study of the railway container customer value, a railway container customer value
Yinghong Li, Shuangyang Liu
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Empty Container Verification Using Deep Learning

Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications, 2017
The inspection of X-ray cargo images is a challenging visual search task for security department. With the increase of import and export trade, it is necessary to develop an intelligent algorithm to improve the accuracy and efficiency of inspection by assisting security inspectors to check the cargo. This paper is proposed a method to solve the problem
Wei Shi, Cun Cheng, Zhi-Yuan Luo, Yan-Jie Yao, Yu-Ying Hong   +4 more
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Empty Container Logistics

2009
This book provides an accurate overview of current logistic pratices concerningthe management of empty containers in the context of international trade. This information is exploited to develop new optimization models involving more information than in the past, enhancing the analysis of these problems and providing high-quality solutions in terms of ...
DI FRANCESCO, MASSIMO, OLIVO, ALESSANDRO, ZUDDAS, PAOLA   +2 more
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