railway container facilities to construct a time-varying bilateral technology variable and estimate its effect on explaining …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … to shipment, destination and firm characteristics. We find container transport to have a higher first-mile cost and a …

The thesis proposes the tactical optimization models for global and regional container management. Both models … formulated as dynamic network flow models that seek to maximize the total profit from container management, and solved using … the deployment of leased containers in the global shipping network in different scenarios. The Inland Model considers an …

consideration. The model involves decisions concerning an inland modal split of containers based on the global picture of container …This paper focuses on the problem of container management on a liner shipping network with a short-term leasing … availability in the network; determining the time period and port in which the shortage of containers necessitates a higher …