The standardised freight container was one of the most important innovations of the 20th Century. Containerised cargoes travel from their point of origin to their destination by ship, road and rail as part of a single journey, without unpacking. This simple concept is the key element in cheap, rapid transport by land and sea, and has led to a phenomenal growth in global trade. Likewise, contain...

‡ College of Engineering, California State University, Long Beach _____________________________________________________________________ In this paper we propose an intelligent transportation system for container movement between inland port and terminals, in which fully automated trucks are employed to transfer all the containers. The inland port is located a few miles away from the terminals a...

The article is devoted to the problem of infrastructural restrictions that hinder development high-speed freight transportation by rail in Russian Federation. relevance chosen topic confirmed presence a significant number scientific publications reflect national specifics modern using HSR and their infrastructure. purpose determine constraints transport systems tailored infrastructure developme...

In this study, the average speeds of container, dry bulk and crude oil fleets, which are main market types in maritime transportation, estimated analyzed by using external factors such as freight rate, bunker price, fleet size interest rate. Freight rates affect positively, while price negatively accordance with theoretical justifications. The rate mostly affects speed container fleet, fleet; i...

Globalization of world economy has led to a rapid growth of container transportation as well as container ports. In China, Shanghai and Ningbo ports have experienced an explosive growth rate based on their strong economic hinterlands. The purpose of this paper is to adopt regional economic theory and methods to quantitatively analyze the spatial structure of the ports cluster and the competitiv...