Optimization of empty container movements using street-turn: Application to Valencia hinterland

Furió, Salvador; Andrés, Carlos Abellán; Adenso‐Díaz, Belarmino; Lozano, Sebastián

doi:10.1016/j.cie.2013.09.003

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“…Prior research has demonstrated the importance of empty container repositioning for economic and ecological objectives in maritime shipping and global trade [2]. Further studies have successfully shown that periodic review strategies for empty container depots at sea ports can be an effective tool to reduce costs in the repositioning process [3,28]. Nevertheless, these studies focused on a pure cost objective without considering pollution or practical conditions such as corrupted containers or street-turn opportunities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Empty Container Management at Ports Considering Pollution, Repair Options, and Street-Turns

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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International trade imbalances make the management of empty containers within shipping networks an important economic and ecological problem. While import-dominated ports accumulate large amounts of empty containers, export-dominated ports need them as transport resources, requiring a repositioning transportation of empty containers on the sea and land side. Acknowledging the importance of the problem, plenty of respective literature has appeared. Since periodic review inventory management systems allow to model the inherent stochasticity of empty container transportation, they have emerged as a major solution approach in the domain. Nevertheless, existing approaches often omit crucial economic and ecological real world conditions determining the success of empty container management. Pollution, repair options, and street-turns are important aspects in this context. In this work, we present new stochastic review policies incorporating a realistic allocation scheme for empty container emissions, realistic maintenance, and repair options as well as street-turns. We analyze the optimality of the proposed polices and evaluate them in a simulation model with metaheuristic parameter search based on extensive real-world data from a major global shipping company operating in Latin America. Results provide insights for academics and practitioners about the economic and ecological impact of the distinct empty container management polices within a shipping network.

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“…Furthermore, Jula et al [27] developed several strategies, including street-turns, to optimize dynamic empty container reuse in a port area. Furió et al [28] extended these ideas to optimize empty containers movements on the land side, also applying street-turns.…”

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Empty Container Management at Ports Considering Pollution, Repair Options, and Street-Turns

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Voß

et al. 2016

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…Most of the studies examined ECR between the seaports (Shen and Khoong, 1995;Choong, 2002;Shintani et al, 2007;Feng and Chang, 2008;Dong and Song, 2012;Zhang and Fachanha, 2014;Huang, 2015, Akyüz andLee, 2016). Some researchers studied the ECR problem for inland transportation (Wang and Wang, 2007;Dang, 2012;Furio et al, 2013;Xie, 2017). All of these studies approached the ECR problem from a deterministic point of view.…”

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Optimization of Empty Container Repositioning in Liner Shipping

Gençer¹,

Demir²

2020

BMH

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Empty container repositioning (ECR), which arises due to imbalances in world trade, causes extra costs for the container liner carrier companies. Therefore, one of the main objectives of all liner carriers is to reduce ECR costs. Since ECR decisions involve too many parameters, constraints and variables, the plans based on real-life experiences cannot be effective and are very costly. For this purpose, this study introduces two mathematical programming models in order to make ECR plans faster, more efficient and at the lowest cost. The first mathematical programming model developed in this study is a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model and the second mathematical programming model is a scenario-based stochastic programming (SP) model, which minimize the total ECR costs. Unlike the deterministic model, the SP model takes into account the uncertainty in container demand. Both models have been tested with real data taken from a liner carrier company. The numerical results showed that, in a reasonable computational time, both models provide better results than real-life applications of the liner carrier company.

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“…Numerical results showed that both of the solution methods perform better than the real-life practices. Furio et al (2013) investigated ECR at local level and considered street-turn applications in the hinterland of Valencia. The authors developed a DSS based on an optimization model that minimizes total costs of ECR including storage costs at terminals and depots.…”

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An Overview of Empty Container Repositioning Studies and Research Opportunities

Gençer¹,

Demir²

2019

BMH

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The imbalances in world trade also affect container traffic and lead to large differences in import and export rates of many locations. As a consequence of this, the surplus containers are repositioned to locations where they are required, which causes high costs. Many studies in the literature have addressed this issue from different aspects. This study examines the studies and trends in empty container repositioning (ECR) practices and reveals the missing research areas in the literature. It discusses the mathematical models developed in the literature and addresses real-life applications of the liner carriers. The study also emphasizes how the opportunities in technological development can be used in ECR practices and provides suggestions for research topics that can be studied in the light of current trends in container shipping. It exhibits the actors involved in ECR operations and discusses the strategies applied in liner shipping. The main purpose of the study is to put forward research and real-life application opportunities in the field of ECR.

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Optimization of empty container movements using street-turn: Application to Valencia hinterland

Cited by 27 publications

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Empty Container Management at Ports Considering Pollution, Repair Options, and Street-Turns

Empty Container Management at Ports Considering Pollution, Repair Options, and Street-Turns

Optimization of Empty Container Repositioning in Liner Shipping

An Overview of Empty Container Repositioning Studies and Research Opportunities

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