Tremendous annual growth rates of container volumes transhipped worldwide reflect an increasing demand of service capacity faced by container terminals. In spite of high utilization, terminals have to provide fast service processes to vessel operators. This book addresses the related seaside...

This book presents new insights and successful solutions to the operational problems of automated container terminals and cargo systems. It comprises reports on the state of the art, applications of quantitative methods, as well as case studies and simulation results. Its contributions are...

Studies the economic impact of the container traffic at one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean: the Port of Algeciras Bay, while analysing the framework of the containerisation business, explaining the physical characteristics of the PAB in relation to this activity, carrying an...

Placing special emphasis on the significant security issues associated with modern container international transport, this book provides in-depth exploration on both the US and European Union port and shipping policy, and that of wider international trade. The authors take an original and...

This book helps to solve the problem of substantial waste and inefficiency in port production by analyzing operational efficiency at more than 30 Chinese and Korean leading container ports using three types of DEA model. In addition it offers a returns-to-scale analysis, which is particularly...

Holger Pontow demonstriert, dass interorganisationale Informationssysteme in der arbeitsteiligen maritimen Transportkette zahlreiche Nutzenpotentiale versprechen. Um diese im Vorfeld von Investitionsentscheidungen qualitativ und quantitativ beurteilen zu können, nutzt er im Kern seiner...

This book provides successful implementations of metaheuristic methods for neural network training. It is the first book to achieve this objective. Moreover, the basic principles and fundamental ideas given in the book will allow the readers to create successful training methods on their own....

The liner shipping network design delivers schedules and routes for ships that continuously visit harbours on a closed round trip. Examples of such ships are container ships that in many cases maintain a weekly harbour visiting frequency. Volker Windeck elaborates a liner shipping network design...