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{"title":"Container Inventory Management: Factors Influencing Container Interchange","authors":"Prof(Dr) Lalith Edirisinghe, J. Zhihong, A. W. Wijeratne","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2910257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2910257","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Efficient and effective management of empty containers and empty container repositioning is an important issue in the liner shipping industry. Many alliance agreements of carriers have provisions to interchange containers but not practiced in real life scenario. It is hard to find any previous literature on container exchange except the technical details of alliance agreements. The researchers reiterate the conditions provided in carriers’ alliance agreements to interchange containers and in principle recommend container interchange as an efficient and effective container inventory management mechanism. Accordingly, the research attempts to find the factors that influence container interchange between carriers. The research was conducted in Sri Lanka. Researchers believe that the sample is adequate because 16 container carriers in the world top 20 list presently call port of Colombo in Sri Lanka. A series of interviews followed by a questionnaire survey have been carried out and data were analysed mainly using Chi-Square Tests. This would lead to understand the critical factors that influence container exchange and thereby develop efficient, sustainable and effective mechanism for container inventory management through container interchange. The study concluded that five factors namely, operational, legal, branding, benefits, and feasibility may influence the container interchange by carriers. There were two limitations noted in the research; the reluctance to provide information pertaining to container inventory by carriers; and the common dislike of carriers to participate in surveys due to their busy work schedules. These findings would help practitioners to expedite the process of developing a user-friendly container interchange system. In addition, this research will fill the serious gap in the present literature on container exchange and provide an incentive to further research on this topic. The container imbalance is a global issue and finding an efficient and effective solution is vital. Key words: container, inventory, management, shipping, maritime, exchange","PeriodicalId":447021,"journal":{"name":"TransportRN eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129808154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Impact Analysis of Autonomous Containerised Freight","authors":"Tzameret H. Rubin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3044498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3044498","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced robotics is a disruptive technology that has the potential to create massive economic impact. According to a McKinsey Global Institute study in 2013, advanced robotics were identified as one of twelve disruptive technologies to have an economic impact, with an estimated potential to affect $6.3 trillion in labour costs globally (McKinsey, 2013). One application of advanced robotics is the automation of cargo ports, with the intention of increasing profitability for cargo terminals by reducing costs and increasing container handling productivity. They comprise autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) robots equipped with radar and laser guidance technology to navigate and position containers in the optimum and most efficient manner, by minimising space allocation time and providing significant safety improvements. The need to increase cargo capacity to support economic growth is a global trend, which is echoed by Australian reports that acknowledge the urgent need for freight capacity increase. Unless Australian ports are able to expand their capacity by improving their productivity, the growing technology along the cargo supply chain will create a bottleneck in Australian ports that could hamper its economic growth. According to the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) data, in the year 2029-30, across Australia, ports will handle almost twice as much capacity as they do today. This capacity increase would require a significant improvement in using the nation’s resources, through optimisation of space and transportation capabilities (BITRE, 2010). The most significant contribution to Australian ports would result from a fully automated system that connects the terminal operating system (TOS) and equipment that would integrate and interface with the terminal logistic system (TLS). This report focuses on advanced robotics able to handle the cargo in Australia's ports, and provides an economic benefit analysis and forecast of moving towards automated autonomous straddle carriers across Australia. Currently Brisbane port operates a fully autonomous straddle carrier terminal, with another due to become operational in Botany Bay, Sydney in 2014. In January 2015 Kalmar announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide an integrated automation system to handle operations at Victoria International Container Terminal Ltd's (VICT) new terminal in Melbourne, Australia (Kalmar, 2015). Autonomous straddle carrier technology can not only significantly improve freight capacity but can also enhance the safety of operations, reducing the potential for manual errors by isolating the workforce from heavy machinery. Patrick – one of Australia leading company for containers stevedoring services reports that in the first year of straddle automation at Brisbane terminal they achieved a 75% reduction in safety incidents that increased with a reduction of 90% in following years (Patrick, 2012) . Findings suggest a net present value (NP","PeriodicalId":447021,"journal":{"name":"TransportRN eJournal","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127924267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Border Effect and the Nonlinear Relationship between Trade and Distance","authors":"Nuria Gallego, Carlos Llano","doi":"10.1111/roie.12152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12152","url":null,"abstract":"The border-effect literature confirms that sub-national units tend to trade more with the rest of their country than with foreign markets. However, it is likely that ongoing processes of trade integration will generate a trade-off between internal and external integration for sub-national units within countries. In this paper we estimate the internal and external border effect, using a novel dataset that captures intra- and international shipments between Spanish regions and regions in eight European countries with alternative treatments of the nonlinear relationship between distance and trade.","PeriodicalId":447021,"journal":{"name":"TransportRN eJournal","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125612466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Whither Sub-Regional Cooperation? The CLMV Perspective","authors":"E. Devadason","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1951849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1951849","url":null,"abstract":"Recent debates advocate that closer sub-regional cooperation may be an excellent start to stronger regional cooperation. The study investigates this proposition for the case of CLMV countries that remain less integrated into the ASEAN region, based on their trade links with China. In this respect, the China-CLMV trade flows are examined, prior to detailing the role of China as a core trading partner to CLMV, within the context of intra-ASEAN regional and intra-GMS sub-regional synergies. The study points out that overall, the CLMV trade relations with China remain unbalanced in terms of volume and structure of trade. Nevertheless, sub-regional membership of CLMV in the GMS is found to be relevant for deepening China-CLMV trade ties for two reasons. First, China plays a greater catalytic role, along the dimension of an export destination, in enhancing intra-GMS trade relative to intra-ASEAN trade. Second, common border effects are found to be significant only for sub-regional trade, consistent with border trade as the modality of cooperation within the GMS.","PeriodicalId":447021,"journal":{"name":"TransportRN eJournal","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130523329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}