JOURNAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY(NATURAL SCIENCE) ›› 2015, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (09): 61-68.doi: 10.6040/j.issn.1671-9352.0.2015.010

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Empty container reposition optimization with the corporation of the shipping lines

WANG Chuan-xu, WANG Wan, CHEN Fei-yan, XU Chang-yan   

  1. Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China
  • Received:2015-01-12 Revised:2015-06-30 Online:2015-09-20 Published:2015-09-26

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Abstract: With the consideration of fuzzy random empty container demand and supply as well as the corporation of different shipping companies in the same port, and without the limit of empty container lease, a multi-stage port container inventory level optimization model based on the minimization of expected container logistics total cost is developed. A numerical example is given to demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed model and compare the models with shipping companies corporation and without shipping companies corporation. At last, the impacts of empty container lease cost, holding cost, empty container demand variation and demand fuzzy degree on port logistics cost and container inventory level are analyzed.

Key words: empty container inventory level, waterway transportation, corporation, empty container reposition

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  • U491
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