Challenges in managing empty container movements at multiple planning levels

K Braekers, GK Janssens, A Caris - Transport Reviews, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Empty container management deals with repositioning empty containers at minimum costs
while fulfilling empty container demands. Due to imbalances in trade, some areas have a …

Integrated planning of loaded and empty container movements

K Braekers, A Caris, GK Janssens - OR spectrum, 2013 - Springer
Efficiently planning drayage operations is an important task for transportation companies
since these operations constitute a large part of the cost of an intermodal transport. In this …

Positioning empty containers under dependent demand process

QV Dang, WY Yun, H Kopfer - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
Owing to trade imbalance, ship** companies position empty containers between ports or
depots periodically. The most difficult problem for positioning is that it is not possible to know …

Optimization of empty container movements using street-turn: Application to Valencia hinterland

S Furió, C Andrés, B Adenso-Díaz, S Lozano - Computers & Industrial …, 2013 - Elsevier
Empty maritime container logistics is one of the most relevant costs for ship** companies.
In this paper two mathematical models (based on two different container movement patterns …

Replenishment policies for empty containers in an inland multi-depot system

QV Dang, IE Nielsen, WY Yun - Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2013 - Springer
This research focuses on the problem of positioning empty containers in a port area with
multiple depots. Three options are considered: positioning from other overseas ports, inland …

Freight network design with heterogeneous values of time

L Duan, L Tavasszy, Q Peng - Transportation Research Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper aims to demonstrate the effect of recognizing heterogeneity in values of time on
the design of a hub network for freight transportation. By taking the VOT distribution into …

Maritime empty container repositioning: a problem review

H Khakbaz, J Bhattacharjya - International Journal of Strategic …, 2014 - igi-global.com
Maritime ship** containers are important to a number of different industries as they
facilitate the reduction of transportation costs. To address the needs of shippers, empty …

Concepts, mechanisms, and algorithms to measure the potential of container sharing in seaport hinterland transportation

S Sterzik - 2013 - media.suub.uni-bremen.de
This thesis analyzes how trucking companies of a hinterland region can improve their routes
if ship** companies allow the mutual exchange of their containers. In this case, trucking …

[PDF][PDF] Empty tank container repositioning: Including a forecast

E Jansen - Tilburg: Master Thesis: Tilburg University, 2014 - arno.uvt.nl
Since the introduction of tank containers, transportation of freight by tank containers is rising
(Braekersa, Janssensa, & Carisa, 2011). Tank containers are used for intermodal …

船公司合作下港口空箱调运研究

汪传旭, 汪琬, 陈飞燕, 许长延 - 山东大学学报 (理学版), 2015 - lxbwk.njournal.sdu.edu.cn
考虑同一港口内不同船公司之间的合作行为, 在港口空箱需求和供给均为模糊随机条件下,
空箱租赁不受限, 建立船公司合作条件下以港口集装箱物流总成本最小化为目标的多阶段港口空 …