Marine container terminals play a significant role for international trade networks and global
market. To cope with the rapid and steady growth of the seaborne trade market, marine …

International ship** accounts for 2.7% of worldwide CO2 emissions, and measures to curb
future emissions growth are sought with a high sense of urgency. With the increased quest …

Emergencies, such as pandemics (eg, COVID-19), warrant urgent production and
distribution of goods under disrupted supply chain conditions. An innovative logistics …

Improving container ports' operational efficiency to reduce the delays at ports concerns
global port operators significantly. Optimizing the tactical level allocation of quay side and …

Due to the variety of technical equipments and terminal layouts, research has produced a
multitude of optimization models for seaside operations planning in container terminals. To …

The current decade sees a considerable growth in worldwide container transportation and
with it an indispensable need for optimization. Also the interest in and availability of …

The “factory-in-a-box” concept involves assembling production modules (ie, factories) in
containers and transporting the containers to different customer locations. Such a concept …

Publisher Summary Intermodal transportation may be defined as the transportation of a
person or a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation …

The container ship** industry faces many interrelated challenges and opportunities, as its
role in the global trading system has become increasingly important over the last decades …

Operations research techniques have helped optimize container terminal operations over
the past decades and have been a regular feature of maritime logistics and maritime supply …