Keyword: containers

Found 81 papers in total
Influence of external costs on the optimisation of container fleets by operating under motorways of the sea conditions
2016,
This paper provides a decision‐making tool for shipping companies that try to...
GHG emission assessment of Chinese container terminals: a hybrid approach of IPCC and input-output analysis
2015,
With the rapid development of the shipping industry in China, environmental issues in...
Container ship size and the implications on port call workload
2015,
As the TEU capacity of container ships has risen, there has been an increase in the...
Service quality determinants of the container haulage industry: an empirical study in Malaysia
2016,
The international shipping trade has emerged to be a growth enabler of globalisation,...
Technical change and bias in the container shipping industry in Taiwan
2014,
The aim of this paper is to explore the sources of technical change and the associated...
The impact of CO2 pricing or biodiesel on container transport in and passing through the Netherlands
2014,
The paper analyses the impact of: 1) CO 2 pricing; 2) using biodiesel...
An exploratory analysis of the effects of modal split obligations in terminal concession contracts
2014,
The port authority of Rotterdam has been the first to incorporate modal split...
Drivers explaining the inefficiency of Peruvian and Chilean ports terminals
2014,
We measure technical efficiency of port terminals in Peru and Chile to evaluate the...
Determinants and strategies for the development of container terminals
2013,
The paper examines an important player in the container industry: the container...
Ethical leadership and ethical climate in the container shipping industry
2013,
This study examined ethical leadership and ethical climate in the container shipping...
A Survey on Container Processing in Railway Yards
2013,
In spite of extraordinary support programs initiated by the European Union and other...
Scheduling train loading with straddle carriers in container yards
2013,
This paper considers a scheduling problem occurring in the hinterland of many...
Seaport strategies for pre‐emptive defence of market share under changing hinterland transport system performance
2013,
Main deep sea ports that are market leaders in their regions will continuously defend...
A port choice model with logit models: a case study for the Spanish container trade
2013,
Earlier research by the authors showed that transport costs, port specific dummy...
Shipping agents and container management: an exploratory analysis of infrastructural and cost concerns
2013,
Globalisation and the maritime transport boom that has been occurring since the 1980s...
Marine container terminal configurations for efficient handling
                    of mega‐containerships
2013,
This paper addresses two innovative design alternatives of marine container terminals...
A royalty negotiation model for BOT (build–operate–transfer) projects: The operational revenue‐based model
2011,
Whilst few studies have explored royalty negotiations for build, operate and transfer...
An operational activity‐based method to estimate CO2 emissions from container shipping considering empty container repositioning
2012,
This paper develops an operational activity‐based method to estimate CO 2...
Space allocating strategies for improving import yard performance at marine terminals
2011,
This paper focuses on the organization of the import storage yard at container port...
Service differentiation in liner shipping: advance booking and express services
2011,
Containerisation has transformed ocean shipping in a relatively standardised process....
Storage and stacking logistics problems in container terminals
2011,
In container terminal operations, the storage yard plays an important role for a...
Public regulation and passengers importance in port infrastructure costs
2011,
Because ports are conceived and designed mainly to be the transfer point of various...
The multiple container loading cost minimization problem
2011,
In the shipping and transportation industry, there are several types of standard...
Models for the discrete berth allocation problem: A computational comparison
2011,
In this paper we consider the problem of allocating arriving ships to discrete berth...
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