Strategic fleet size planning for maritime refrigerated containers

Imai, Akio; Rivera, Fausto René Posso

doi:10.1080/03088830010020629

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“…A reduction of container fleet size saves capital investment and inventory costs, but increases the need for empty container repositioning, container leasing costs in case of shortages and even the risk of customer loss due to container unavailability. (Imai and Rivera, 2001;Dong and Song, 2009) Despite this relationship, Imai and Rivera (2001) state that it is more convenient to deal with both problems separately. In general, owned containers are kept in use for more than ten years.…”

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“…Results show that by implementing a system of inland depots a reduction of 49% in empty container kilometers may be achieved. Imai and Rivera (2001) focus on the container fleet sizing problem for refrigerated maritime containers. First, the authors propose a mathematical model for the dry container fleet sizing problem with a relatively balanced demand between ports.…”

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Optimization of empty container movements in intermodal transport

Braekers¹

2012

4OR-Q J Oper Res

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Optimization of empty container movements in intermodal transport

Braekers¹

2012

4OR-Q J Oper Res

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“…Seaport, as an essential interface, links up these two separate networks together to shape an international/regional intermodal container network. In traditional concept, port is a node in seaborne network while voyage between two nodes carried out by ships is called an arc in such a network (Imai and Rivera, 2001). Under this background, academic researches focus on container network optimisation issues in sailing voyages.…”

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Port hinterland intermodal container flow optimisation with green concerns: a literature review and research agenda

Lam¹,

Gu²

2013

IJSTL

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Abstract:The closer link between ports and supply chain leads to a growing research area -port hinterland intermodal development. Focusing on the literature with mathematical models, the purpose of this paper is to categorise and analyse earlier research contributions on intermodal container flow optimisation, to identify the research trends and gaps, and to suggest future research directions. Results show that future research should focus on global intermodal container flow optimisation, addressing the approaches of ports integrating into such global intermodal chain taken green issues into account. There is substantial need for research addressing greening the intermodal network and sustainable development. Providing cost effective solutions alone in optimisation problem is rather traditional and one-sided. Those market players possessing commercially viable capabilities and also environmental responsibilities would gain a competitive advantage in future dynamic business environment. Bi-objective or multi-objective optimisation would be more suitable to actual situations.

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“…The model has built-in flexibility to consider additional variables and parameters based on data availability and scenarios to be examined. The problem of determining the size of a refrigerated container fleet is addressed by Imai and Rivera [81]. A simulation model is developed for fleet sizing and various scenarios are analyzed to determine the most convenient composition of the fleet.…”

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Industrial aspects and literature survey: Fleet composition and routing

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Computers & Operations Research

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The purpose of this paper is to describe industrial aspects of combined fleet composition and routing in maritime and road-based transportation, and to present the current status of research in the form of a comprehensive literature review. With a backdrop of industrial aspects, a categorized survey of relevant literature since the first published papers in the 1950's is given. First, the literature review discusses some early seminal and application-oriented papers, presents a classification of problems, and then focuses on a basic definition of combined fleet composition and routing: the fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem. Three basic mathematical formulations from the literature are presented and compared. Further, the literature of extended and related problems is described and categorized. Surveys of application oriented research in road-based and maritime transportation conclude the review. Finally, we contrast the literature with aspects of industrial applications from a critical, but constructive stance. Major issues for future work are suggested.

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Strategic fleet size planning for maritime refrigerated containers

Cited by 66 publications

References 4 publications

Optimization of empty container movements in intermodal transport

Optimization of empty container movements in intermodal transport

Port hinterland intermodal container flow optimisation with green concerns: a literature review and research agenda

Industrial aspects and literature survey: Fleet composition and routing

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