This two volume book presents an in-depth analysis of many of the most important issues facing today's shipping and port sectors. Volume 1 of Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy focuses on the application of theory to practice in Maritime Logistics.

Einführung -- After Sales Services — mit produktbegleitenden Dienstleistungen profitabel wachsen -- Märkte und Perspektiven -- Aktuelle Chancen und Trends im Servicegeschäft -- Innovative Geschäftskonzepte im After Sales Service -- Strategien für After Sales Services -- Profitable...

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...

Sebastian Meiswinkel studies optimization problems that arise at container ports from a classic optimization as well as from a mechanism design point of view. The first part of this dissertation is focused on scheduling problems with selfish job owners that have private information about their...

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 is a comparative study of the critical factors in berth productivity in Chinese and South Korean container terminals. It first defines the concept of berth productivity, and then establishes a regression model to evaluate the productivity factor. With the results obtained for the...

Container transportation is the predominant mode of inter-continental cargo traffic. Since container ships and port terminals involve a huge capital investment and significant daily operating costs, it is of crucial importance to efficiently utilize the internal resources of container terminals...

Grundlagen logistischer Systeme und Prozesse -- Planung in Container-Terminals -- Leistung und Grenzen bestehender CT-Modelle -- Entwicklung eines multiagentenbasierten Modells zur CTProzesskoordination -- Koordination des Planungsprozesses in Container-Terminals -- Schlussbetrachtung.