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Empty container reposition planning for intra-Asia liner shipping

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  • Cheng-Min Feng
  • Chia-Hui Chang

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This paper addresses empty container reposition planning by plainly considering safety stock management and geographical regions. This plan could avoid drawback in practice which collects mass empty containers at a port then repositions most empty containers at a time. Empty containers occupy slots on vessel and the liner shipping company loses chance to yield freight revenue. The problem is drawn up as a two-stage problem. The upper problem is identified to estimate the empty container stock at each port and the lower problem models the empty container reposition planning with shipping service network as the Transportation Problem by Liner Problem. We looked at case studies of the Taiwan Liner Shipping Company to show the application of the proposed model. The results show the model provides optimization techniques to minimize cost of empty container reposition and to provide an evidence to adjust strategy of restructuring the shipping service network.

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  • Cheng-Min Feng & Chia-Hui Chang, 2008. "Empty container reposition planning for intra-Asia liner shipping," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(5), pages 469-489, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:marpmg:v:35:y:2008:i:5:p:469-489
    DOI: 10.1080/03088830802352111
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