Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics: Making Global Supply Chains Effective (Hardcover, 2015)

Part I: Container Terminal Operation: Innovation, Trend, Competition and Business.- Model.- Innovative Container Terminals to Improve Global Container Transport Chains.- Container Terminal Operation: Current Trends and Future Challenges.- Container port competition in Europe.- Container Port Competition and Competitiveness Analysis: Asian Major Ports.- Choosing a Business Model of Container Terminal Operations.- Part II: Shipping Liners: Tactical and Operational Management.- Empty Container Repositioning.- Robust Optimization Approach to Empty Container Repositioning in Liner Shipping.- Disruption Management for Liner Shipping.- Bunker Purchasing in Liner Shipping.- Ship Route Schedule based Interactions between Container Shipping Lines and Port Operators.- Slow Steaming in Maritime Transportation: Fundamentals, Trade-offers and Decision models.- Efficient Global Container Chain port Network Design.- Part III: Shippers and Global Supply Chain Management.- Purchasing Transportation Services from Ocean Carriers.- Ocean transport and the facilitation of trade.- Modelling Global Container Freight Transport Demand.- Competition and Co-operation in Maritime Logistics Operations.- Hinterland transportation in container supply chains.- Green corridors and their possible impact on the European supply chain.