The network design problem in liner shipping is of increasing importance in a strongly competitive market where potential cost reductions can influence market share and profits significantly. In this paper the network design and fleet assignment problems are combined into a mixed integer linear programming model minimizing the overall cost. To better reflect the real-life situation we take into...

The significant cargo volumes transferred by sea, in combination with the increased technological and operational requirements that international competition imposes, lead to the continuous upgrade of infrastructure and equipment of modern port terminals. Within this framework, a number of new technologies for the transhipment of unitised cargo have been developed and are available in the marke...

We consider the inventory transshipment problem between two retailers that sell the same product to two independent markets. One assumption that distinguishes our work is that unsatisfied customers may also switch to the retailer with surplus inventory. We examine the impact of such customer switching behavior on firms' inventory decisions and profits. We identify situations when the firm with ...

Planned as Shanghai's new port, Yangshan is currently expanding its roles as transhipment hub and integrated logistics/industrial center in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper examines the impact of the emergence of Yangshan on the spatial pattern of the Yangtze River Delta since the 1970s, with reference to existing port system spatial evolutionary models. While this emergence confirms the tre...

The dual linear programs for the transhipment problem over a directed graph, G N, E }, are shown to have polyhedra with properties that make them well suited to vertex visiting solution techniques, like the simplex method. In particular, nondegenerate cases are shown to have feasible regions with considerably fewer extreme points than the feasible sets for primal problems. The adjacency structu...

The problem of analysing operational policies for transhipping containers in a port container terminal is studied using an agent-based simulation approach. The decision makers involved in transhipment operations, i.e., the terminal manager, the port captain, the stevedores and the ship captains, as well as some of the operators of the physical resources, such as cranes and straddle carriers, ar...

The impacts and disadvantages of transhipment which even threatens sustainable development shows that can be identified as a transnational crime. On the one side, there is need for legal countermeasures transshipment crimes in Indonesia so it does not occur again. But on other actually becomes necessity because fish landing mostly take time are fresh. In addition, also has some obstacles no age...

The paper evaluates technical and logistics developments that could lead to increased economic and technical efficiency of rail–road transport terminals. The main design parameters are identified (length and utilisation of transhipment tracks, train and truck arrival behaviour/patterns, type and number of handling equipment, mean stacking height in the storage area, terminal access system and p...