Economic benefits of deploying foldable containers: reducing bunker and container management costs in a multi-port shipping network

• Autorzy: Shintani Koichi , Nishimura Etsuko , Imai Akio

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.20858/tp.2023.19.2.06

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

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 multi-commodity network flow problem by optimizing container fleet size and empty container relocation in a multi-port shipping service network. Port handling time and sailing speed provided by obtained optimal solutions enable the determination of ship BCs as a secondary step. The numerical experiments demonstrate the comparative effect of FLDs against standard ones on the reduction of the costs of empty containers and containership bunker oil.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

container transport; empty container; foldable container bunker cost; liner shipping

PL

transport kontenerowy; pusty kontener; koszt składanego bunkra kontenerowego; wysyłka liniowa

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej
• Czasopismo: Transport Problems
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: T. 19, z. 2
• Strony: 67--80
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 28 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Shintani Koichi

• Tokai University; 3-20-1 Orido, Shimizu, Shizuoka 4248610, Japan

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8431-3466

autor

Nishimura Etsuko

• Kobe University; 5-1-1 Fukaeminami, Higashinada, Kobe, Hyogo 6580022, Japan

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3902-3280

autor

Imai Akio

• Kobe University; 5-1-1 Fukaeminami, Higashinada, Kobe, Hyogo 6580022, Japan

• https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6256-4964

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