Maritime Empty Container Repositioning

Khakbaz, Hossein; Bhattacharjya, Jyotirmoyee

doi:10.4018/ijsds.2014010101

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“…Tang et al [23] considered the sharing of containers, built an optimization model for empty container transportation with the goal of the lowest total cost, and took China Railway Express as an example to conduct research. Khakbaz, Bhattacharjya [24] reviewed the relevant research on the cost of empty shipping containers and analyzed the future development trends and possible research directions. Shintani [25] discussed the planning of the container transportation network while considering the dispatch of empty containers.…”

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“…The nodes that can be used as the origin and destination of the passenger-like c tainer train are Beijing(1), Tianjin(2), Qingdao(4), Lianyungang(6), Shanghai Ningbo (10), Xiamen (11), Zhengzhou (13), Wuhan (14), Guangzhou (16), Xi'an (20), K ming (23), Baotou (24), Wulumuqi (25), Lanzhou (27), Xining (28), Chengdu (29), Harbin (3 Jilin(32), Shenyang(33), and Dalian(34). The shortest path between them constitutes a c didate set of train lines, with a total of 210 candidate lines.…”

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Optimization of Passenger-like Container Train Running Plan Considering Empty Container Dispatch

2022

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Railway container transportation plays an important role in the sustainable development of transportation. In order to improve the efficiency of container transportation and maximize the transportation revenue of railway enterprises, taking the passenger-like container train running plan as the research object, we established an optimization model. The model considers the transportation requirements of empty and heavy containers, aiming at the maximum revenue of railway transportation enterprises, the conservation of container flow, train stops, container reloading, and other constraints. It is a mixed-integer linear programming optimization model. First, the shortest path between nodes was solved by the Floyd algorithm as the candidate set of the train to be run, and then the particle swarm algorithm was designed to solve the model. Numerical experiments were carried out by taking a container network with 34 nodes as an example to verify the validity of the model and algorithm. The experimental results showed that when the minimum average loading rate of trains is 70%, 47 lines need to be run, which is 163 less than the candidate lines. The running cost of all trains is 31,901,200 yuan, and total revenue of the transportation enterprise is 10,930,568 yuan. Compared with the existing container transportation mode, the passenger-like container transportation mode has a higher average number of trains and faster velocity. However, it has a lower average loading rate and proportion of direct container flow. The results were compared in three different minimum average loading rate values: 50%, 60%, and 70%. It was found that with the increase of the minimum average loading rate of trains, the number of lines to be opened decreases, the cost of running decreases, and the revenue of transportation enterprises increases.

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Optimization of Passenger-like Container Train Running Plan Considering Empty Container Dispatch

2022

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“…Then, Song et al [9] studied the empty container repositioning strategy under the condition of flexible destination port, and evaluated the effectiveness of the strategy through simulation. Khakbaz and Bhattacharjya [10] provided a comprehensive literature review about maritime empty container repositioning, and trends and potential research directions were examined. Zheng et al [11] considered the coordination between liner carriers, and used the reverse optimization method to optimize the cost of empty container repositioning.…”

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“…China Chengdu (1), Wuhan , Tianjin (3), Qingdao (4), Dalian port (1),Tianjin port (2), region Rizhao (5), Shanghai (6), Ningbo(7), Qingdao port (3), Shanghai Port (4), Xiamen (8), Shenzhen (9), Guangzhou (10) Xiamen port (5),Shenzhen port (6), Qianzhou (11) Nanning (12),Kunming (13) Ningbo port (7) Europe Hamburg (14),Duisburg (15),Lodz (16), Hamburg Port (8), Rotterdam Port (9), region lyon (17),London (18),Tilburg (19), Piraeus Port (10),Port of Gdynia ( 11), Nuremberg (20),Poznan (21),Rotterdam (22) Barcelona (12) The basic parameters of the empty containers optimization model are shown in Table 2. The initial storage volume in cities for CRE [5,15]/ [5,15] company/ international liner company(TEU) The initial storage volume in ports for international liner company(TEU) [50,80] In this study, all models were solved by CPLEX 12.6.2, and the i5-6440 CPU processor with a Windows 7 operating system was applied for calculation.…”

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Research on the Optimization of Empty Container Repositioning of China Railway Express in Cooperation with International Liner Companies

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Both China Railway Express (CRE) companies and international liner companies are faced with the problem of empty container repositioning. In order to reduce empty container repositioning cost and realize their sustainable development, this paper studies the optimization problem of empty container repositioning under the condition of their cooperation. To minimize the cost, three optimization models of empty container repositioning are established, which are based on the single repositioning and cooperative repositioning. Numerical experiments are carried out to analyze the three empty container repositioning optimization models solved by CPLEX. The results show that the total cost could be greatly reduced by the cooperative repositioning. The effects of cooperation become more obvious with the unit storage cost or repositioning cost increases and become weaker with the unit mutual rental cost increase. When the demand fluctuation is in a certain range, the cooperation is still effective, which can reduce the cost. But when it is beyond a certain range, the benefits will be greatly reduced. In reality,for the sustainability of their cooperation, both sides should pay attention to the proportion of supply and demand and set reasonable mutual rental cost.

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Empty Equipment Logistics and Empty Container Repositioning (ECR)

Song

Dong

2022

Modelling Empty Container Repositioning Logistics

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Maritime Empty Container Repositioning

Cited by 10 publications

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Optimization of Passenger-like Container Train Running Plan Considering Empty Container Dispatch

Optimization of Passenger-like Container Train Running Plan Considering Empty Container Dispatch

Research on the Optimization of Empty Container Repositioning of China Railway Express in Cooperation with International Liner Companies

Empty Equipment Logistics and Empty Container Repositioning (ECR)

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