Purpose This paper seeks to evaluate the factors that contribute to congestion at port entrances, propose a comprehensive approach to managing port gates that addresses the factors causing traffic jams and assess the outcomes of resolving the issue through an optimal model for incoming container...

1. Introduction / Dong-Wook Song, Photis M. Panayides -- Part I: Management, operations and strategic issues -- 2. Container liner shipping, port development and competition / Adolf K.Y. Ng -- 3. Container flows and empty container repositioning / Ada Suk Fung Ng -- 4. Port congestion and...

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...