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• Title:Advances in maritime logistics and supply chain systems / editors, Ek Peng Chew, Loo Hay Lee, Loon Ching Tang.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Chew, Ek Peng.
  Lee, Loo Hay.
  Tang, Loon Ching.
  
• Published/Created:Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2011.
  

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  • Call Number: HD38.5 .A38 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Shipping--Management.
  Harbors--Management.
  Business logistics.
  
• Description:xvi, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:This book discusses the recent developments, new problems, challenges and innovative solutions in maritime logistics. It includes issues such as the recent economic crisis, port competition and development, and provides insights and trends relating to these issues.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9789814329859
  9814329851
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Pt 1 Maritime Trade Evolutions and Port City Developments In Asia
  1. Introduction
  2. Evolution of Asia's Maritime Trade
  2.1. Ancient maritime trade between India and China, 1200-1450
  2.2. Maritime networks in colony times, 1500-1950
  2.3. Asia's maritime trade under globalization
  3. Asia Port Developments in the 1990's and Beyond
  3.1. Northeast Asia
  3.2. Southeast Asia
  3.3. Smith Asia ports
  4. Factors of Port Competitiveness and Development
  4.1. Port location
  4.2. Port efficiency
  4.3. Multimodal network
  4.4. Maritime trade strategy and institutional settings
  5. Lessons to be Learnt
  6. Conclusions
  7. References
  Pt 2 Recent Development of Maritime Logistics
  1. Development Trends on Global Container Shipping
  1.1. Global economic condition and industry perspective
  1.2. Recent trends in container shipping industry
  2. Liner Shipping
  2.1. Container liners
  2.2. Freight rates
  3. Ports
  3.1. Global container terminal operators
  3.2. Leading terminal operators
  3.3. Development in transshipment activities
  3.4. Improvement in port performance
  3.5. UNCTAD liner shipping connectivity index 2009
  4. Conclusions
  5. References
  Pt 3 Scenario Analysis for Hong Kong Port Development Under Changing Business Environment
  1. Introduction
  2. Literature Review
  3. Changing Business Environment for HKP
  3.1. Changing business environment in the PRD region
  3.2. Potential processing trade relocation trends
  4. IVIIP Model
  5. Experimental Design
  5.1. Experimental scenarios
  5.2. Experimental data
  6. Results, Analysis and Findings
  6.1. Modeling results at base scenario
  6.2. Sensitivity analysis
  6.3. Scenario analysis and findings
  7. Conclusions and Future Work
  8. References
  Pt 4 Models for Port Competitive Analysis in Asia-Pacific Region
  1. Introduction
  2. Literature Review
  3. Port Benchmarking Models
  3.1. Port efficiency
  3.2. Port connectivity
  3.3. Impact of factors on individual ports
  4. Conclusion and Discussion
  5. References
  Pt 5 Is Port Throughput a Port Output?
  1. Introduction
  2. Port Production Function
  3. Port Operating Options
  4. Port Resource Function
  5. Container Port Output
  5.1. TEU Throughput and the port production function
  5.2. TEU Throughput and port cost functions
  6. Port Interchange Service Measures
  6.1. Port revenue
  6.2. Port throughput ratio
  7. Conclusion
  8. References
  Pt 6 Framework for Modelling and Benchmarking Maritime Clusters: An Application to the Maritime Cluster of Piraeus
  1. Introduction
  2. Conceptual Definition: Cluster Theory and Maritime Clusters
  3. Concept of Maritime Clusters
  4. Spatial Paradigm: The Greater Area of Piraeus
  4.1. structure of the Piraeus maritime cluster
  4.2. economic footprint of the maritime industry in the region
  4.3. SWOT analysis
  5. Methods for Evaluating and Benchmarking Maritime Clusters
  5.1. General cluster sizing indicators
  5.2. Intra-cluster performance indicators
  5.3. On the use of data and analysis for measuring performance of maritime clusters
  6. Computational Methods for Simulation and Life-Cycle Management of Maritime Clusters
  6.1. Agent-based modeling and simulation
  6.2. Modeling case study: the maritime cluster of Piraeus
  6.3. Agent-based modeling toolkit
  7. Conclusions
  8. References
  Pt 7 Performance Evaluation Strategy Towards Dealers in the Automotive Supply Chain
  1. Introduction
  2. Problems of Dealer Evaluation
  3. Indicators Definition for Dealers' Performance Evaluation
  3.1. Balanced scorecard method
  3.2. Evaluation indicators definition
  4. Dealers' Performance Evaluation via ANP
  4.1. Analytic network process (ANP)
  4.2. Enabling factors of dealers' performance
  4.3. Procedure of dealers' performance evaluation
  4.4. Method for dealers' performance evaluation
  5. Case Study
  6. Conclusions
  7. References
  Pt 8 Yard Allocation Strategy for Export Containers Via Simulation and Optimization
  1. Introduction
  2. Related Work
  2.1. Yard allocation for import containers
  2.2. Yard allocation for export containers
  2.3. Combined yard allocation
  3. Yard Allocation Modeling for Export Containers
  3.1. Problem description
  3.2. Yard allocation modeling
  4. Yard Allocation Algorithm for Export Containers
  4.1. Heuristic algorithm for feasible solution
  4.2. Procedure of genetic algorithm
  5. Simulation Model
  5.1. Simulation framework
  5.2. Input parameters
  5.3. Simulation process
  5.4. Statistical simulation indices
  6. Case Study
  7. Conclusions
  8. References
  Pt 9 Integration of AGVS in Intermodal Rail Operations at Deep Sea Terminals
  1. Introduction
  2. Earlier Attempts to Address the Problem
  2.1. Fixed rail mounted gantry cranes linking ship to shore crane with stacking area and hinterland modes rail and road
  2.2. NOELL - an approach by K.P. Franke
  3. AGV-solution to Integrate Railway Operations in Deep Sea Terminals
  4. Conclusion
  5. References
  Pt 10 On the Ongoing Increase of Containership Size
  1. Introduction
  2. Economies of Ship Size
  2.1. Modeling ship size economies
  2.2. Capital related costs
  2.3. Labour related costs
  3. Shipping Costs of Post Panamax Containerships
  3.1. Fixed annual costs
  3.2. Fuel costs
  3.3. Shipping costs per roundtrip
  4. Ongoing Increase of Containership Size
  4.1. Development of ship size and trade
  4.2. Factors limiting economies of ship size
  4.3. balance between user and producer costs
  4.4. Factors affecting development of user costs
  5. Conclusions
  6. References
  Pt 11 Linearized Approach for Liner Ship Fleet Planning with Demand Uncertainty
  1. Introduction
  1.1. Background
  1.2. Literature review
  1.3. Randomness
  1.4. Contributions
  2. Problem Description, Assumptions and Notations
  2.1. Itinerary
  2.2. Charter strategies
  2.3. Chance constraints
  2.4. Notations
  3. Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Model with Chance Constraints
  4. Linearized Approach
  5. Numerical Example
  6. Summary and Conclusion
  7. References
  Pt 12 Ship Emissions, Costs and Their Tradeoffs
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Some Basics: Algebra of Emissions and Fuel Cost
  4. Simple Logistical Scenario: Factors and Tradeoffs
  5. Cost to Avert One Tonne of CO2
  6. Port Time Factor
  7. Speed Reduction at SECAs
  8. SECAs Continued: Effect on Modal Split
  9. Conclusions
  10. References
  Pt 13 Exploring Tanker Market Elasticity with Respect to Oil Production Using Foresim
  1. Introduction
  2. Methodology
  3. Simulation Results
  4. Conclusions.