Empty Container Logistics

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Selection behavior of the global container shipping industry for carrier-owned and leased containers

“…Historically, the container leasing companies have owned approximately 45% of the global container fleet (Dong and Song, 2012;Karmelic et al, 2012;Wehrheim, 2011). In general, the container leasing agreements between shipping lines and leasing companies are classified into two major categories by leasing terms: the fixed-term agreement and the master lease agreement.…”

A Short Discussion on Current Challenges Faced by Container Shipping Companies and the Solutions

“…It is not easy to eliminate the imbalance of container transportation between regions such as Europe-Middle East and Europe-East Asia in a short time. This transportation imbalance can also be described as imbalanced trade among different individual markets [7] [8]. Usually, there exists much more freight from China to Europe than the freight back.…”

Development of a model for the integrated management of the international delivery chains formation

“…Effectiveness of organization of the system of security and management of container transportation, an increase in competitiveness of carriers, freight forwarders, logistics and IT-companies depend on comprehensive application of advanced software and hardware tools of control [7]. The problems of micro-logistic planning in ports for efficient management of the flows of empty containers and the cost optimization were discussed in [8]. However, the problems of comprehensive management of formation of the transport and logistic systems of cargo delivery at the macro-level were not sufficiently considered.…”