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Seaside Operations Planning in Container Terminals
Franklin Meisel
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paperback. Tremendous annual growth rates of container volumes transhipped worldwide reflect an increasing demand of service capacity faced by container terminals. This book addresses the related seaside operations planning problems by investigating berth allocation, quay crane assignment and quay crane scheduling. Series: Contributions to Management Science. Num Pages: 188 pages, 56 black & white illustrations, 29 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV5; KJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 296.
1. 1 Motivation and Scope of Research Container terminals in seaports constitute interfaces between sea and land tra- port of goods in global transport chains. These logistics facilities face an increasing demandof service capacity,as is re ected by a tremendousgrowthin the worldwide container transshipments per year. For example, the top 20 terminals in the world showed an average relative increase of 14% with respect to the number of handled container units from 2006 to 2007, see Port of Hamburg Marketing (2008). In spite of this development, competition is high among container terminals within the same region. A terminal’s customers, rst ... Read more
1. 1 Motivation and Scope of Research Container terminals in seaports constitute interfaces between sea and land tra- port of goods in global transport chains. These logistics facilities face an increasing demandof service capacity,as is re ected by a tremendousgrowthin the worldwide container transshipments per year. For example, the top 20 terminals in the world showed an average relative increase of 14% with respect to the number of handled container units from 2006 to 2007, see Port of Hamburg Marketing (2008). In spite of this development, competition is high among container terminals within the same region. A terminal’s customers, rst ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Physica Germany
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Management Science
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Heidelberg, Germany
ISBN
9783790825862
SKU
V9783790825862
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99-15
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