Application of DEA in analyzing a bank’s operating performance

abstract This article takes 117 branches of a certain bank in Taiwan in 2006 as the research subject and introduces ata envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the operating performances of business units of this bank to provide the reference for a bank’s managers in determining operation strategies. The result indicates that, in overall technical efficiency, the case bank has many inefficien…

A Survey of Singaporean Chinese Investors in Mainland China and their Knowled…

ntroduction The world’s most popular country, China, implemented the open door policy in 1979. Since then China has been gradually opening up her economy to attract foreign investments. Recently, China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) entry has boosted its economic growth and advanced its legal and governmental reforms. Bilateral trade between China and Singapore has flourished since the e…

An Evaluation of Container Development Strategies in the Port of Taichung

The objective of this study is to examine the container development strategies in the port of Taichung from the viewpoints of carriers, port authorities and shipping academics. The six most important strategic attributes from the all respondents perceptions are Enhancing the services of direct shipping with Mainland China, simplified customs procedures, simplified administrative procedures, de…

Container terminal planning : tanjung priok port

Container handling activities in Tanjung Priok Port, the biggest port in Indonesia, received a lot of critics from customers. The port is perceived to be slow in executing its operation, which create unnecessary extra cost for customers. The port it self suffer from lack of backup area needed to expand its handling capacity. Expansion is necessary to anticipate the fast growing cargo traffic in…

A six sigma framework for marine container terminals", International Journal…

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Container Terminal Operations

This book describe the activities, facilities and operation of the container terminal. Beside Explain the role of the container terminal in cargo handling and Discuss organizational structure, management, supervision and control of the container terminal. 

Container Terminal Operations : For Terminal Operation II Tanjung Priok

This book describe the activities, facilities and operation of the container terminal. Besides discuss organizational structure, management, supervision and control of container terminal Explain the role of the container terminal in cargo handling and safety working environment.

Basic Container Terminal Operations

[15:55, 1/15/2018] Mas Ridwan: Indonesia merupakan Negara berkembang yang sedang mengalami pertumbuhan hal ini menyebabkan peningkatan GDP yang signifikan. Target produktivitas Indonesia harus mencapai 60% untuk dapat mempertahankan nilai barang dan jasa sebesar 6% – 7%. Ketidakmerataan pertumbuhan GDP di Indonesia khususnya terjadi pada kawasan di luar pulau Jawa dikarenakan akses yang sulit…

Container Terminal Operations Induction Program For RTGC Operator 2014

Buku ini membahas mengenai container terminal operation. Didalamnya anda akan di kenalkan dengan program pengembangan yang tidak saja menyiapakan anda untuk menjadi tenaga operasional handal yang menguasai kopetensi tekniks, tetapi juga diharapkan memiliki kopetensi tinggi sebagai seorang operator.

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Supervisory container yard operations

Contain of this book is training objective, supervisory skills, supervisory yard operations, supervisory ship operations, supervisory planning and control tower

Ship planning for container terminal modul B

Buku ini merupakan buku modul ship plainning for container terminal. Yang mana buku ini membahas mengenai "container". Buku ini memuat pula EDI Training for TO II Ship training

Preparation of dry ports for a competitive environment in the container seapo…

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…

A two-stage supply chain DEA model for measuring container-terminal efficiency

Despite the growing amount of research into container-port operations and efficiency, much of the literature on the subject treats container ports and terminals as black box systems without examining the structure of their transformation and production processes. Research on the network and multi-stage structure of container-terminal operating systems is scarce and its applications in the conte…

Hybrid approach for container terminals performances evaluation and analysis

Turnaround time, defined as the total time spent by a vessel within the port area, is one of the most important key performance measures for a container terminal. In this paper, the authors propose a hybrid approach based on simulation and genetic algorithms to investigate vessels’ turnaround time in a real container terminal under different scenarios characterised by increases in containers …

Institutional challenges to intermodal transport and logistics : governance i…

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…

Port operations and container terminal management with applications

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…

Container flows and empty container repositioning

This chapter explains the impact containerisation has on the various partners of the global supply chain and the challenges companies encounter and the solutions they use in dealing with empty container repositioning.

Locating dry ports on a network : a case study on Tianjin port

A mathematical model for optimizing the location of dry ports is developed. The objective is to minimize the sum of the transportation costs and the fixed facility opening/closing costs. Unlike previous research on this subject, the possibility of closing existing dry ports is investigated. The dry port location problem is formulated as an integer programming and it is shown that the CFLP is a …

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A model for performance evaluation and sensitivity analysis of seaport contai…

In the last decades, the growth of the containerised freight demand has led to a fast development of seaport container terminals. As an evidence of the relevance and of the interest that such intermodal terminals have reached, consider the significant amount of existing scientific works facing the problem of optimising their performances at operative, tactic, and strategic levels. In this fra…

Globalization contained : the economic and strategic consequences of the cont…

Globalization contained : the economic and strategic consequences of the container

Review Of Maritime Transport 2014

Global economic growth faltered in 2013 as economic activity in developing regions suffered setbacks and as the situation in the advanced economies improved only slightly.  Prospects for the world economy, trade and shipping seem to be improving although a number of risks mostly on the downside remain.

Regression Model for Vessel Service Time: Container,Performance,Statistic and…

The rapid development in container terminal ports in providing efficient and effective services and high port productivity are necessary nowadays. It is happen as current demands from new generation of container vessels are an indicator to the container terminal operators how serious international trade via sea. This work shares scenario of service time at container terminal as a sign of its pe…

Sistim peti kemas = container system

Sistim peti kemas = container system

Planning And Design Of Ports And Marine Terminal

Following from the success of the first edition, written by a collection of eminent figures in the field, this new edition continues to look at the rational planning for port facilities requirements (berths, storage and cargo handling equipment), organisations, management and operations with relation to planning and design of ports and marine terminals.

Analysis of proper capacity at Jakarta International Container Terminal

As a facility with high capital investment, container terminal tends to be operated with maximum capacity by using high utilization of facilities and equipment rather than a proper throughput. However, a high utilization is leading to the ships waiting time and as consequence lowering the service level. Therefore a study is needed to determine the proper capacity by considering the interest of …

Optimization of stuffing services at port of Palembang

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Strategy analysis to increasing of occupancy inland container depo (ICD) port…

Inland Container Depo (ICD) is one of the facilities owned by PT (Persero) Pelabuhan Indonesia IV of Makassar. The Average growth of containers through the Makassar. The average growth of containers through the Makassar Container Terminal 9%, but it is contrary to the ICD occupancy decreased from year to year due to  there are some container depot outside the port as a competitor. So that the …

Multimodal transport : the practitioner's definitive guide / the Singapore lo…

The Practitioner's Definitive Guide: Multimodal Transport is specifically written for freight forwarding personnel and those joining the industry, and also serves as a useful guide to anyone who needs to arrange transport for shipments. It provides comprehensive information on current practices, along with real-life case studies to illustrate actual fie…

Container terminals and cargo systems : design, operations management, and lo…

This book presents new insights and successful solutions to the operational problems of automated container terminals and cargo systems. It comprises reports on the state of the art, applications of quantitative methods, as well as case studies and simulation results. Its contributions are written by leading experts from academia and business and address practitioners and researchers in logisti…

Port and terminal facilities

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A Study into Automated Container Terminals: A Literature Review & New ACT Con…

Globalization has drastically increased the amount of trade between different nations and this has lead to an exponential growth in shipping activities around the world. As a result, many container terminals are struggling to cope with this new surge of containers moving through their yards. Numerous container terminals are looking at the possibility of automating their container terminal so as…

Crane Scheduling in Container Terminals : Mathematical Models, Heuristics and…

The globalization of trade has lead to an enormous growth in sea transportation over the last years. A great majority of general cargo is containerized and handled in container terminals, which are essential hubs in sea transportation systems. The potential of cost saving in a container terminal is large and the workflow of a container terminal has to be very efficient. The focus of this book l…

Inaccuracy in traffic forecasts: lying or strategizing? A contextualist analy…

The purpose of this paper is to look into the fate of a troubled initiative in Hong Kong that was developed in the midst of discussions between Beijing and London leading towards the 1997 handover. It sets out to shred new light on the “forecasting gap”: the gap between the anticipated level of traffic and the real volume of traffic in the years following the opening of a new infrastructure

Storage space allocation in container terminals

Container terminals are essential intermodal interfaces in the global transportation network. Efficient container handling at terminals is important in reducing transportation costs and keeping shipping schedules. In this paper, we study the storage space allocation problem in the storage yards of terminals. This problem is related to all the resources in terminal operations, including quay …

Technical Efficiency Analysis of Container Terminals in the Middle Eastern Re…

Despite an increasing number of studies on the efficiency of container terminals, their focus has mostly been on advanced and emerging markets. There are limited studies on container terminals in developing countries such as those of the Middle Eastern region, which are located in a critical geographic position in the international maritime route between the East and the West. Information on th…

U.S. import/export container flow modeling and disruption analysis

International containerized freight movement is a vital part of the supply chain for many companies, anda critical element of moving consumer goods to points of retail sale within the U.S. Containerized imports also present a clear security concern (e.g., terrorists attempting to ship “dirty bombs,” chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons, into the U.S. in a shipping container). The go…

Use of the Delphi method to determine the constraints that affect the future …

Who would have foreseen 40 years ago the launching of an 18 000 TEU container ship? The unprecedented growth of such ships presents an increasing challenge for port infrastructure planners. The paper concludes that during the next 20 years, the growth of container ships will depend on factors related to supply and demand, and to external factors. These factors will be defined as the constraints…

World container port throughput follows lognormal distribution

We show in this paper that the throughput data for the top 300 container ports reported each year by the various authorities follows a simple truncated lognormal distribution. This surprising phenomenon repeats itself every year from 1982 to 2006, despite many tumultuous changes in the container shipping world. The empirical data suggests that Gibrat’s Law of proportionate growth indeed holds…

World container port rankings

Studying the traffic rankings of the world's busiest seaports and airports geographers are inclined to look for certain locational qualities or attributes that might help explain the rankings [I]. In this paper the 1995 ranking of the world's top 25 container load centres will be put in simple geographical context. No claim is made that this is the only useful context! It is obvious that the ph…

US container terminal leasing and pricing

Income from leasing container terminals and terminal facilities over the last 15 years has risen from miniscule levels to a point where it now represents a majority of the total income at some us ports [l]. This paper reviews the methods used to lease container terminals and terminal facilities, examines the leasing methodologies and pricing approaches used by us public port authorities, and di…

US container port resilience in a complex and dynamic world

The resilience of US container ports is increasingly challenged by disruptive and stressful events such as regulatory change, adverse weather, larger container ship sizes, changing patterns of trade and sea routes, and the still to be quantified effects of enlarging the capabilities and capacity of the Panama Canal. Port sustainability requires the port managers to be resilient in their practic…

Urban road congestion, capacity expansion and port competition: empirical ana…

In this study, we empirically investigate the impacts of urban road congestion and road capacity expansion on the competition between major container ports in the US. We find that more delays on urban roads may cause shippers to switch to competing rival ports: a 1% increase in road congestion delays around the port is associated with a 0.90–2.48% decrease in the port’s container throughput…

Unveiling co-operative networks and ‘hidden families’ in the container po…

Over the last few years, the progressive scarcity of land for greenfield projects in ports and the enormous financial resources required to realize new terminal facilities have induced international terminal operators (ITOs) to enter in various types of agreements. In particular, ITOs have growingly resorted to equity joint-ventures (EJVs) to develop new infrastructures and share project risks.…

The size effect of a port on the container handling efficiency level and mark…

This study examines the relationship between the size of a port, its efficiency increase and the performance growth in the transshipment market. The hypothesis tested is that the bigger size of a port would increase the market share of the port in container transshipment; only when the size effect guarantees better ‘relative’ container handling efficiency in competing port system where the …

The potential seasonal alternative of Asia–Europe container service via Nor…

The summer minimum extent of Arctic sea ice shrank drastically in these years, and the opportunity on Arctic international shipping emerged. The Northern Sea Route (NSR), formerly blocked by permanent ice, was completely ice-free in September in the past 3 years. Because this route is much shorter than conventional Asia–Europe shipping lane, many maritime countries have paid attention to expl…

The ownership and management structure of container terminal concessions

It is now over 25 years since the widespread concessioning of container terminals began. This article examines the impact of concessioning on the balance between public and private sector control, the use of competitive tendering to assign concessions, the structure of the Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) to which concessions were originally awarded, and the way in which the ownership of these S…

The optimal ship sizes of container liner feeder services in Southeast Asia: …

Deploying containerships with increasing carrying capacities in achieving better capacity utilization has been well-documented. However, ship operators often face the problem in deploying containerships with the right size, especially given the capital-intensive nature of container liner shipping, which would lead to substantial implications if inappropriate ships were used. While studies on op…

The hierarchical configuration of the container port industry: an application…

This paper aims to provide a hierarchical configuration of the container port industry. It attempts to do so by determining a port hierarchy and then, utilising this, deriving the nature of the spatial interactions between sample ports in East Asia. The former is determined by assessing the relative importance of a port within the given network, and the latter is mainly based on the significanc…

The growth potential of container shipping on the Yangtze River

Despite the rapid economic growth in the Yangtze River Delta area, the Yangtze River itself is lagging behind as measured by the ratio of container volume to total freight volume. According to the Ministry of Communications’ statistics, more than 70% of cargoes generated in the Yangtze Valley are suitable for containerized transport, but, at this time, only a fraction of these cargoes are act…