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- Comprehensive insights into state-of-the-art research for seaside operations planning in container terminals
- Integrated solution of related planning tasks is presented
- Extensive literature survey, new models, and new algorithms for seaside operations planning
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
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1. 1 Motivation and Scope of Research Container terminals in seaports constitute interfaces between sea and land tra- port of goods in global transport chains. These logistics facilities face an increasing demandof service capacity,as is re ected by a tremendousgrowthin the worldwide container transshipments per year. For example, the top 20 terminals in the world showed an average relative increase of 14% with respect to the number of handled container units from 2006 to 2007, see Port of Hamburg Marketing (2008). In spite of this development, competition is high among container terminals within the same region. A terminal’s customers, rst and foremost the vessel op- ators, expect a high level of service quality where reliability is one of the most importantdimensions,seeWiegmansetal. (2001). Regardingtheserviceofavessel, reliability means to realize all transshipment operations within its projected service time interval. The reliability of terminal operations impacts the reliability of v- sels in meeting their liner schedules. According to Notteboom (2006) unexpected waiting times of vessels before berthing and unexpected low transshipment prod- tivity at terminals are responsible for about 86% of liner schedule disturbances, see Fig. 1. 1. Currently, many terminal operators counteract this situation by extending their transshipment capacities. They build new terminals or enlarge existing ter- nals and purchase new or upgrade existing equipment. Ilmer (2005) provides an overview of current projects for building terminal capacity in northern Europe.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seaside Operations Planning in Container Terminals
Authors: Frank Meisel
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2191-8
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-2190-1Published: 12 June 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-2586-2Published: 21 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-2191-8Published: 28 May 2009
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 168
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Transportation, Operations Management