Etsuko Nishimura
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Environmental challenge of vehicle dispatching in marine container drayage Open
In marine container drayage (CD), which refers to the transport of goods over a short distance, empty containers (ECs) are required to be transported long distances between a terminal and a shipper/consignee by conventional transportation.…
ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF DEPLOYING FOLDABLE CONTAINERS: REDUCING BUNKER AND CONTAINER MANAGEMENT COSTS IN A MULTI-PORT SHIPPING NETWORK Open
This study seeks to explore the effectiveness of employing foldable containers (FLDs) in liner shipping to reduce relocation and the empty containers and bunker costs (BCs) associated with ship operations. This resolves a minimum-cost mult…
Study on Scheduling Data Analysis and Optimizing Vehicle Arrangement for an Automobile Carrier Terminal Open
In recent years, a car production base globalizes and the transport volume of a finished car is increasing dramatically. There is a vast parking space for storing temporarily export and import and the finished car transshipped in an automo…
Yard and berth planning efficiency with estimated handling time Open
Purpose To achieve a high container handling efficiency at transshipment hub ports, there are a variety of scheduling problem as ship-to-berth assignment (BAP), container-to-yard arrangement (YAP), etc. As it is difficult to acquire the ac…
Redistribution Problem of Relief Supply and Vehicle Operation for Post Disasters Open
The great earthquakes have occurred in various places of Japan after an interval of several years, and the mudslide disasters also have occurred about every rainy season for the past several years. After the disaster occurred around one we…
Block Sizing at the Container Terminals with Irregular Configuration Open
This study addresses the container block sizing problem at container terminals with irregular configuration. New marine container terminals often have a rectangular configuration by making use of reclaimed land. However due to geographical…