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Off the Waterfront: The Long-run Impact of Technological Change on Dock Workers
El-Sahli, Zouheir; Upward, Richard - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2015
plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology … long-run consequences of containerisation for patterns of employment, migration and mortality. The results show that the …
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A nested logit model of mode choice for inland movement of export shipments: A case study of containerised export cargo from India
Ravibabu, M. - In: Research in Transportation Economics 38 (2013) 1, pp. 91-100
inland segment. Prior to containerisation the general cargo for export moved to ports invariably on road in break bulk form …. Growth of containerisation led to development of inland terminals enabling an exporter to obtain export clearance at the … inland terminals facilitated aggregation an exporter could move cargo either by road or rail. Thus containerisation increased …
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Diffusion of Container Packaging Method into the Nigerian Transport System
ADERAMO A.J.; ADEYANJU J.A. - In: Journal of Asian Scientific Research 3 (2013) 1, pp. 39-56
The study examined the diffusion of container method of packaging for the period 1968 – 2005 in Nigeria with a view to adopting the method in the Nigerian Transport System. This was done by collecting a comprehensive data set of import and export container traffic from seven selected ports in...
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Off the Waterfront: The Long-run Impact of Technological Change on Dock Workers
El-Sahli, Zouheir; Upward, Richard - 2015
plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology … long-run consequences of containerisation for patterns of employment, migration and mortality. The results show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208720
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Container Shipping And Ports: An Overview
Notteboom, Theo E. - In: Review of Network Economics 3 (2004) 2, pp. 86-106
Globalisation, deregulation, logistics integration and containerisation have reshaped the port and shipping industry …
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An Economics Evaluation on the HPC based Modeling and Simulation in SME Industry
Seo, Dong Woo; Park, Chang Kirl; Kim, Jae Sung; Park, … - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
To overcome the global economy crisis, industries must take a revolutionary step and look for modern technologies. A computer modeling and simulation process has brought about dramatic innovation in the field of engineering. In the process of product design and performance verification, computer...
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Application of the high performance computing techniques of parflow simulator to model groundwater flow at Azraq basin
Wa’il Abu-El-Sha’r; Rihani, Jehan - In: Water Resources Management 21 (2007) 2, pp. 409-425
Being one of the largest groundwater basins in Jordan, the Azraq basin is considered to be an important domestic and agricultural water source. Lately, there have been growing concerns about the continuous depletion and deterioration in groundwater quality in the basin due to intensive pumping...
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2D Finite Element Inundation Modelling in Anabranching Channels with Sparse Data: Examination of Uncertainties
Sanyal, Joy; Densmore, Alexander; Carbonneau, Patrice - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 8, pp. 2351-2366
Flood inundation modelling in developing countries is severely limited by the lack of high resolution terrain data and suitable imagery to map flood extents. This study assessed the predictive uncertainty of modelled flood extents generated from TELEMAC2D model using low-cost, sparse input data...
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Multiobjective Memetic Algorithm Applied to the Optimisation of Water Distribution Systems
Barlow, Euan; Tanyimboh, Tiku - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 8, pp. 2229-2242
Finding low-cost designs of water distribution systems (WDSs) which satisfy appropriate levels of network performance within a manageable time is a complex problem of increasing importance. A novel multi-objective memetic algorithm (MA) is introduced as a solution method to this type of problem....
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High performance computing algorithms for textile quality control
Anagnostopoulos, C; Anagnostopoulos, I; Vergados, D; … - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 60 (2002) 3, pp. 389-400
At the present time, industries like textile are in constant need of modernisation. Thus, their presence in the high technology area of high performance computing (HPC) based inspection is of strategic interest. Textile manufacturers have to monitor the quality of their products in order to...
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