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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When is a container a comonad? [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2014 Abbott, Altenkirch, Ghani and others have taught us that many parameterized datatypes (set functors) can be usefully analyzed via container representations in terms of a set of shapes and a set of positions in each shape.
Danel Ahman +2 more
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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
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Reverse logistics of empty pesticide containers: solution or a problem?
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2021 Pesticide residues has become a serious environmental concern due to the intensification of agricultural production, its universal use and the risk of contamination.
Karina Braga Marsola +4 more
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Inventory model for empty container reposition problem considering quality dependent returns and port capacity constraint [PDF]
Decision Science LettersIn this study, an Economic Return Quantity (ERQ) model for the Empty Container Reposition (ECR) problem using the reverse logistics (RL) approach is developed.
Lukmandono Lukmandono +2 more
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The Logistic of Empty Containers′ Return in the Liner-Shipping Network
Transport and Telecommunication, 2017 The Maritime Transport is a favoured tool regarding the universal exchanges because it has gone through several evolutions. Indeed, the containerization is considered as one of the most remarkable improvements in the shipping.
Belayachi Naima +3 more
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