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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Container shipping"”.
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Equipment control in container shipping
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994.
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Evaluating the impact of IMO 2020 on the container shipping industry
… to reduce sulphur emissions in the global shipping industry arising from ships burning high sulphur bunker fuel. The regulation is estimated to cost the industry up to US$ 30 billion and offers no apparent direct benefit or advantage to the industry, as well as being ill-designed for …
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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in the Container Shipping Industry: A Case Study of the Triple E as part of Maersk's Sustainability Strategy
The oversupply within the Container Shipping Industry in combination with a global trade slowdown of the last decade has set an unprecedented financial pressure on Container Shipping Liners over the world. This expressed itself in the record low shipping rates in 2016 for the Asia-Europe route and …
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Analysis of the impacts of Internet-based business activities on the container shipping industry : the system dynamics modeling approach with the framework of technological evolution
… have become a new technological challenge to the container shipping industry (CSI) in recent years. Despite the growing importance of e-business in the CSI, little systematic and theoretical research on e-business has been undertaken so far. This research therefore attempts to understand the …
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Systems-based analysis of a ship borne approach for the detection of fissile material concealed in cargo containers
The international maritime container trade, which imports an average of 19,000 largely uninspected cargo containers to United States ports each day, has been identified as a potential avenue of attack for nuclear terrorism. Currently envisioned and deployed defensive measures that seek to detect …
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Marine dock optimization for a bulk chemicals manufacturing facility
… of dock optimization- in the petrochemical shipping industry as well as in allied operational environments such as container shipping. They discuss the inputs that would be needed to build a decision-support-system designed for the express purpose of measuring dock utilization. Following a …
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The effectiveness and economic impact of enhancing container security
Over the past few decades, international containerized shipping has evolved to become the main artery of global trade, providing both convenient and inexpensive access to goods from markets around the world. Yet the very size and efficiencies that have made container shipping such an attractive …
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MEGAPORT : architecture in infrastructural environments
Site: Arabian Sea, major region for container shipping bulk breaking. World trade is growing at a rate twice the world's economy. The assembly and customization of traded goods are increasingly decentralized around the globe. The frequency of their transportation and exchange is increasing. The …
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Transport mode and network architecture : carbon footprint as a new decision metric
… A bottled water firm which created an additional container shipping route to reduce the volume of water it ships via truck. Comparisons and contrasts are made between case study firms. Findings from these case studies are used to make forward-looking recommendations for companies interested in …
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Optimization models and methods for storage yard operations in maritime container terminals
Container terminals, where containers are transferred between different modes of transportation both on the seaside and landside, are crucial links in intercontinental supply chains. The rapid growth of container shipping and the increasing competitive pressure to lower rates result in demand for …
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The role of UK container trade flow forecasts in the maritime industry
Containerized cargo growth has underpinned recent seaborne container trade. However published techniques for developing forecasts of containerized throughput at seaports, which are often quantitative, are rarely understood or deployed by practitioners. To fill this research gap, this research aimed …
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Distribution Network Optimization to Reduce Process Variability and Improve Throughput for an Online Retailer
In moving from standard two-day to single-day shipping, Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FC) must stock an increasing variety of product in inventory. Amazon uses a hub and spoke model where Inbound Cross-Dock (IXD) facilities split and ship large quantities of vendor product efficiently to numerous …
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Optimization of yard operations in maritime container terminals
With the continuous growth in international container shipping, many container terminals in maritime ports face congestion, particularly during peak hours of service, and when there is limited space in the storage area. Thus, there has been increasing interest in improving operations efficiency in …