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Purpose: With the increasing environmental pollution due to the growing freight transportation, the roll-on roll-off (RoRo) transport is considered one of the most promising alternatives in short sea shipping to the dominant pure road transport. The interruption of the transport chain by freight...
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for the locations of terminals and depots within a port. Based on this, a detailed analysis is carried out to develop a … containers within ports. The aim is to determine the impact of geographical characteristics of ports for handling port …-internal traffic. Originality: The existing literature provides an overview of ports and maritime networks, as well as various port …
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Purpose: On the one hand, the increasing growth in vessel size and land-based capacity constraints raise the need for optimizing the layout and process design at container terminals. On the other hand, the temporary storage of containers in the yard decouples the material flow of incoming and...
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Purpose: A wide range of customer relationships, services and organizational interfaces characterizes inland intermodal terminals, which are hubs of combined transport. The purposes of this paper are twofold. The first is to highlight challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) at the...
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Purpose: In the last decades, the transport capacities of container vessels have tremendously increased. This leads to longer berth times and greater peak loads at container terminals, especially when schedules are perturbed. Thus, existing container handling processes need to be re-evaluated...
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transshipment from small inland vessels throughout the West German canal network and, thereby, extending the existing capacities … and the Netherlands and relevant hinterland destinations in the West German canal network were analyzed and complemented … waterborne container transportation network. Findings: On the basis of the framework conditions, an effective transshipment …
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