Calmness Study for Container Handling Ports with Open Basin Systems Using Numerical Modeling

A New Connectivity Index for Container Ports

We propose a new index, the Container Port Connectivity Index (CPCI), to measure the trade connectivity of ports within the network of container shipping. This index is based on both economics and network topology, and a distinctive feature is that the strength of a port is based on its position within the global structure of the shipping network and not just on local information such as the nu...

Benchmarking the efficiency of Asian container ports

In the last decade, the shipping industry and the global seaborne trade has witnessed a rapid growth due to globalization of the world economy, boom in international trade and borderless investments. As competition among international ports has intensified, the evaluation of port operational efficiency has become increasingly important to enable individual ports to reflect on its current status...

Efficiency Analysis of Container Ports and Terminals

Automated Container-Handling System for Container Production Nurseries

Production of nursery crops in the US is accomplished in containerand field-growing conditions, with propagation and seedling-rearing carried out in greenhouses. Container-grown crops represent 60% of the US market and represent a highly labor-intensive and thus costly segment of ornamental crop production. The USDA, NASA and the ANLA have collaborated to develop an automated in-field container...

Calmness of constraint systems with applications

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the calmness property for constraint set mappings. After some general characterizations, specific results are obtained for various types of constraints, e.g., one single nonsmooth inequality, differentiable constraints modeled by polyhedral sets, finitely and infinitely many differentiable inequalities. The obtained conditions enable the detection of calm...