With global trade at unprecedented levels, port and terminal managements are fast adapting to meet rising demand. Globalisation is putting port models under increasing pressure to remain competitive in fickle cargo markets. Increasing productivity ─ through expansion or better utilisation of existing assets ─ is a must for economic survival.
This paper aims to describe the storage constrained, inbound inventory routeing problem and presents bounds and heuristics for solutions to this problem. It also seeks to analyze various characteristics of this problem by comparing the solutions generated by the two proposed heuristics with each other and with the lower bound solutions.
The goal of this paper is to discuss the functions of a port hinterland, perform comparative analysis of existing port-type FTZ regulations and systems in Taiwan and Korea based on a port hinterland perspective, and provide recommendations concerning relevant policies and measures to government. This paper’s findings can be summarized as follows: (1) Existing container terminals in Taiwan co…
This module is an introductory to Supply Chain Management, anad part of module of FIATA Higher Diploma in Supply Chain Management
APL is currently ranked the 12th larg es t containers hip operator g lobally by French cons ultancy Alphaliner. The container s hipping brand of Sing apore-bas ed Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) operates 9 0 ves s els . NOL was formed in 19 6 8 and as s umed its current form in 19 9 7 by merg ing with American Pres ident Lines (APL). NOL is the holding company lis ted on the Sing apore Stock Exchang…
Inland waterways play a much greater role in inland freight carrying in the United Kingdom than is generally realised. The purpose of this article is to show the extent of the underestimation of water transport and to outline the potential for future development and the problems which will have to be overcome to realise that potential.
The environmental consequences of international trade and transport have gained importance as a result of the current climate debate. Products are increasingly being produced in one part of the world, transported to another country and then redistributed to their final country of consumption. Since more than 80% of world trade tonnage measured in metric tons is carried by seagoing vessels, mar…
Discusses the results of a survey among shippers in several European countries involved in outsourcing their transport, warehousing and other logistics activities. The survey, which is a joint initiative of the universities of Cranfield, Eindhoven, LinkoÈ ping and Rotterdam (Erasmus) and of ManDat GmbH, is a sequel to a similar survey carried out five years ago and has led to a renewed insigh…
In recent years, many foreign firms have flocked to China (People’s Republic of China) to take advantage of the opportunities in the large market. However, some of these firms have faced logistical problems in transporting and distributing their goods in China. Identifies the transportation problems faced by foreign firms operating in China and examines the possible actions and factors for mi…
While transport seems to be increasingly constrained in its mission to supply services which are continuous, costless and available in all directions, the telecommunications system seems to have no such constraints and to be developing ever more rapidly in terms of inter‐connectivity, falling costs and multi‐directionality. It would seem to be impossible to contemplate the future demand for…
The environmental impacts of transportation are rarely brought into decision making frameworks. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework and tool to help in these organizational decisions
The significant exodus of containers inland due to the container revolution has increased the salience of inland terminals for efficient freight distribution. Further, the migration of containers gradually inland has forced seaports to depend on these inland terminals to determine their competitiveness and offer a mechanism for competitive freight price to the consumer. The performance of dry p…
Transportation problem is an optimization problem. In general, it was studied under random or uncertain condition. Considering the recent complexity, it is not enough to make should be a perfect transportation plan only based on. Usually, there is not only uncertainty but also randomness in many systems. In this paper, the aim is to investigate a transportation problem under uncertain and rando…
Ports, from the simple physical sea/land interface they once used to be, have successively turned into commerce and industrial centers, then into logistics and distribution platforms, and are now becoming intermodal nodes in international supply chains networks, the efficiency of which now drives trade competitiveness. With her distinguished location, logistics infrastructure and well qualified…
There has been a proliferation of studies on product perceptions based on the country of origin. Most of these studies were conducted in western or developed countries. Studies in the less developed nations are still scarce, especially research conducted in the former Soviet Union. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics offer vast new market opportunities for …
Ports and terminals open to prevailing winds can cause problems to moored ships with a high freeboard. Such ships, i.e. ship and berth mooring systems, have to deal with signifi cant aerodynamic loads.Th is paper addresses the theoretical approach of the infl uence of aerodynamic loads on a mooring system for ship and investigates whether windscreens can reduce aerodynamic loads on ships in ports
This paper examines the likely impact of extreme weather events and rising sea levels on key port logistics operations and infrastructure. It develops a 3D model to assess the vulnerability of seaports vis-a`-vis operational assets to sea-level rise. Key operational assets were first identified and geo-referenced on a high-resolution digital terrain model. In addition, perceptions of threat of …
Over the last 3 years, research carried out by Cardiff University has studied the opportunities to integrate freight transport better into supply chains. The paper stems from this work. After asserting the principal reasons why better transport integration is important, it charts a range of diagnostic tools that were deployed. The tools represent a menu of instruments that aim to aid understand…
Ports are widely recognised as crucial nodes in international trade and transport. However, for various reasons, capacity does not always match demand: sometimes there is overcapacity, whereas in other cases, demand exceeds capacity and there is a shortage of the latter. This chapter therefore looks at where port congestion occurs, both globally and in the port-calling chain; it analyses actual…
Since the publication of my books Elements of Shipping and more recently Economics of Shipping Practice and Management, both selling in over 130 countries, I have received numerous requests both from home and abroad for a companion volume on seaports. This book has been written to provide a practical, overall under standing of the elements of port operation and management of a competitive, pr…
Prasarana dan sarana transportasi adalah urat nadi kehidupan ekonomi dan perdagangan sebuah negara. Pertumbuhan ekonomi mustahil terjadi tanpa dukungan infrastruktur transportasi yang memadai. Peran sektor transportasi lebih penting lagi di negara kepulauan seperti Indonesia, yang tak hanya memerlukan aneka moda transportasi darat—angkutan jalan raya dan …
Prasarana dan sarana transportasi adalah urat nadi kehidupan ekonomi dan perdagangan sebuah negara. Pertumbuhan ekonomi mustahil terjadi tanpa dukungan infrastruktur transportasi yang memadai. Peran sektor transportasi lebih penting lagi di negara kepulauan seperti Indonesia, yang tak hanya memerlukan aneka moda transportasi darat—angkutan jalan raya dan …
While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book provides an overview of intermodal transport and logistics including the policy background, emerging industry trends and academic approaches. Establishing the three key features of intermodal transport geography as intermodal terminals, inland logis…
Part history of cargo theft, part analysis and part how-to guide, this book is the one source you need to in order to understand every facet of cargo theft and take steps to prevent losses. It supplies a massive amount of cargo theft statistics and provides solutions and best practices to supply chain security. Providing you with cutting-edge techniques so you can prevent losses, this book will…
This book explains the port operations and proposes approaches that aim to improve the most important successive steps in container terminal management activities. A multi-period assignment problem that seeks to allocate vessels to berthing spaces and quay cranes is proposed to handle the quayside operations. Subsequently, on the yard side, a discrete-event simulation model for the real life de…
This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in seaports’ Mean Technical Efficiency (MTE) scores based on 40 studies published in refereed academic journals. We link the variation in estimated MTE scores to differences in the following factors: the frontier methodology used, which essentially are the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA); regions wher…
Located along shorelines, seaports are highly vulnerable to coastal and marine natural disasters largely due to climate change. Damage caused by disasters can be prevented or alleviated if sufficient investments are made in a timely manner. However, despite a wide range of investment options and well-developed engineering expertise, port investment on disaster prevention remains a challenging t…
As the economy becomes increasingly specialised and globalised, the importance of logistics also increases. For global transportation systems, seaports play a key role as transhipment hubs. As seaports incorporate and coordinate hinterland logistic activities within the activities of the port, the strategies they employ influence the decisions made by both local and global logistic service prov…
This paper analyzes a capacity management problem in which two service providers utilize a common facility to serve two separate markets with time-sensitive demands. The facility provider has a fixed capacity and all parties maximize demand rates. When the service providers share the facility, they play a frequency competition game with a unique Nash equilibrium. When the service providers have…
Buku Pengantar Transportasi dan Logistik ini adalah sebuah buku tentang arti, fungsi dan peranan transportasi dan logistik dalam industri/perekonomian. Kegiatan transportasi selalu melibatkan berbagai lembaga, karena fungsi dan peran masing-masing tidak mungkin hanya ditangani oleh satu lembaga saja.
Protes publik transportasi Indonesia menitikberatkan kepada empat hal : 1. Mengkritisi kebijakan publik yang berjalan tidak 2. Menyadarkan publik/masyarakat terkait dengan hak-haknya; 3. Mendorong upaya-upaya pemenuhan hak publik lebih baik; 4. Menawarkan solusi. Keempat hal tersebut ditulis dengan analisis yang tajam. Buku ini dapat menjadi acuan dan sumber ide bagi media-media dalam me…
The geography of transport systems is now into its third edition,. substantial efforts have been made to build on the first and second editions' success by improving the content and this structure.
The book includes topics such as: liability of the multimodal transport operator and its limits combinations of transport modes (sea-air, air-road, piggyback, land-sea-land, among others) special transport operations (delivering power plant equipments, helicopters, household goods) insurance issues and excluded perils thinking in alternatives - what happens when there is a strike or port conges…