the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the …, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable … voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic …

The thesis proposes the tactical optimization models for global and regional container management. Both models … formulated as dynamic network flow models that seek to maximize the total profit from container management, and solved using …

Container transportation is the predominant mode of inter-continental cargo traffic. Since container ships and port … utilize the internal resources of container terminals and transportation systems. Today there is an ongoing trend to use … automated container handling and transportation technology, in particular, in countries with high labour costs. This in turn …