The paper considers multi agent approach and respective multi-agent system for resource allocation and scheduling within shipping logistics problem. A well known benchmark that is Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows is considered as a case study. The paper proposes an approach to the shipping logistics problem solving that includes auction-based resource allocation and scheduling, distrib...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 The changing relations between transport and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 The logistic chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 Changing intercontinental transport ....

(1979) on OECD countries; Brodsky and Sampson (1979) and Yeats (1976) on Latin America and Asia; and, more recently, Amjadi and Yeats (1995), Amjadi, Reincke, and Yeats (1996), and UNCTAD (1995) on sub-Saharan Africa. These studies document differences in shipping costs but do not directly estimate the relationship between shipping costs and manufactured exports or economic growth. Steven Radel...

Relationships with consumers are critical to the success of online sellers. Online returns can detrimentally influence buyer–seller relationships and, thus, sellers should carefully approach restore their relationship consumers. Returns due consumer satisfaction-related reasons a significant and inevitable part e-commerce. This article focuses on how deal method fee aspects return shipping poli...

At present, throughout the world LNG investments are abounding. In particular, the US and the EU are trying to facilitate their security of natural gas supply. For this reason, LNG enables importers to extend their gas suppliers’ portfolio, considering that some producing countries can be reached only via sea transport. LNG will thus increase importers’ choice; at the same time it can widen the...

Citation: Suaria G, Aliani S, Merlino S and Abbate M (2018) The Occurrence of Paraffin and Other Petroleum Waxes in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Current Legislative Framework and Shipping Operational Practices. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:94. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00094 The Occurrence of Paraffin and Other Petroleum Waxes in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Current Legislative Framew...

A classification scheme for routing and scheduling problems in liner shipping is developed and subsequently used to classify existing literature on the subject. Based on the classification the articles are grouped, and the main characteristics of each group and article are described. The grouping may serve as a catalyst towards developing a model or a group of models that covers the main proble...

It is not enough to seek solutions to these problems from the standpoint of an individual technical or industrial group, or even that of a nation; the whole subject needs a detailed review at the widest international level. Shipping itself is essentially an international operation and the hazards that it may entail are seldom of a purely national or even regional character. This is particularly...

A classification scheme for routing and scheduling problems in liner shipping is developed and subsequently used to classify existing literature on the subject. Based on the classification the articles are grouped, and the main characteristics of each group and article are described. The grouping may serve as a catalyst towards developing a model or a group of models that covers the main proble...

Marine biological invasions have increased with the development of global trading, causing the homogenization of communities and the decline of biodiversity. A main vector is ballast water exchange from shipping. This study evaluates the use of ecological niche modelling (ENM) to predict the spread of 18 non-indigenous species (NIS) along shipping routes and their potential habitat suitability ...