Results 11 to 20 of about 127,611 (289)
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Process system engineering in biodiesel production: a review [PDF]
, 2013 Biodiesel is fast becoming a popular alternative to fossil fuels, as it is natural, renewable and has low toxic emissions. Strategies that have been adopted to ensure continued growth of the biodiesel industry are policy development, reduction of ...
Kamarudin, S.K. +3 more
core +2 more sources
Analysis of empty container management
Pomorstvo, 2022 Shipping containers are known as a crucial equipment for global trade. Most of their lifespan containers are spending empty, being in process of repositioning or sitting in a yard. Increasing trade imbalances globally set up empty container logistics as one of the main concerns in container shipping industry.
Blažina, Antonio +3 more
openaire +1 more source
Foldable Containers: a New Perspective on Reducing Container-Repositioning Costs
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2001 There is little doubt that the requirement to reposition empty containers is one of the more persistent problems in the container transport industry, and is a key factor in cutting operating costs.
Rob Konings, Remmelt Thijs
doaj +1 more source
Investigation of empty container shortage based on SWARA-ARAS methods in the COVID-19 era
European Transport Research Review, 2022 A shortage of empty containers has become a global crisis with more devastating effects than during previous periods when combined with various problems arising from the COVID-19, such as an increase in an imbalance of global trade between supply and ...
Arda Toygar +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Comparison of mathematical models in reverse logistics: case of pesticide containers and packaging
Dyna, 2023 This article presents an analysis of the use of Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Discrete Event Simulation in reverse logistics networks, specifically applied to the process of collection and final disposal of empty pesticide containers and ...
Julián David Silva-Rodríguez +1 more
doaj +1 more source
Joint Optimization of Inventory and Repositioning for Sea Empty Container Based on Queuing Theory
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Approximately 20% of global container transportation activities are used for empty container repositioning, which does not generate profit margins. For container supply ports, in addition to periodically transporting excess empty containers to container ...
Qing-Bin Wang +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Management of Empty Pesticide Containers—A Study of Practices in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Environmental Health Insights, 2017 Aims: The mismanagement of empty containers of pesticides, posing a risk to the environment and the health of people, has motivated the promotion of international policies and guidelines to mitigate such problems.
Omar Huici +4 more
doaj +1 more source