The hinterland distribution of maritime containers from and to seaports has received a great deal of attention lately. Increasing traffic volumes and the introduction of bigger vessels put pressure on marine container terminals and inland transport infrastructure, leading to congestion....

In a container transportation and logistics network, we define an interport as a common user hub facility located in the hinterland of one or several seaports, and where different services are available to carriers and shippers, such as: container stuffing and unstuffing, rail-road...

This paper presents a theoretical network programming formulation of the extended gateway concept in port hinterland container logistics. The model represents a novel extension of the inward interport model developed by Iannone and Thore (2010), as it simultaneously incorporates economic,...

The paper introduces the reader to the subject matters of transportation networks, linear programming (the direct program, the dual program and complementary slackness conditions), programming with 0-1 variables, and coding in GAMS (general algebraic modeling system). Operations analyst have...

During the last few years a new interdisciplinary field of research has emerged: Economic Logistics. The new subject, pionereed by American scholars and currently being further developed by a group of Italian scholars, encompasses, inter alia, appraisal of specialized infrastructures, issues of...