Handbook of ocean container transport logistics : making global supply chains effective /: making global supply chains effective. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chung-Yee Lee, Qiang Meng, editors.
• Editors: Lee, Chung-Yee; Meng, Qiang
• Contents: Part I: Container Terminal Operation: Innovation, Trend, Competition and Business -- Model -- Innovative Container Terminals to Improve Global Container Transport Chains -- Container Terminal Operation: Current Trends and Future Challenges -- Container port competition in Europe -- Container Port Competition and Competitiveness Analysis: Asian Major Ports -- Choosing a Business Model of Container Terminal Operations -- Part II: Shipping Liners: Tactical and Operational Management -- Empty Container Repositioning -- Robust Optimization Approach to Empty Container Repositioning in Liner Shipping -- Disruption Management for Liner Shipping -- Bunker Purchasing in Liner Shipping -- Ship Route Schedule based Interactions between Container Shipping Lines and Port Operators -- Slow Steaming in Maritime Transportation: Fundamentals, Trade-offers and Decision models -- Efficient Global Container Chain port Network Design -- Part III: Shippers and Global Supply Chain Management -- Purchasing Transportation Services from Ocean Carriers -- Ocean transport and the facilitation of trade -- Modelling Global Container Freight Transport Demand -- Competition and Co-operation in Maritime Logistics Operations -- Hinterland transportation in container supply chains -- Green corridors and their possible impact on the European supply chain.
• Publisher Details: Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 387.5442; Business; Containerization; Business logistics; Container ships; Shipping; TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial; Business logistics; Container ships; Containerization; Shipping; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Engineering; Management of specific areas; Production engineering; Management science; Operations research; Production management; Industrial engineering; Business & Economics -- Operations Research; Operational research; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319118918; 3319118919; 3319118900; 9783319118901
• Related ISBNs: 9783319118901
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-550) and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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