This paper proposes a planning system for empty container repositioning. It is said that movement of empty containers account for thirty percentage of movement of all containers. Moreover, empty container repositioning cost no less than 234 million dollars in 2010. Therefore, we have developed planning system to reduce the cost of repositioning empty containers. To achieve this purpose, we have developed a planning system for empty container repositioning. This system includes inventory control, and determination of transportation plan. We have developed simulator including these two methods, and carry out the simulation. Then, we applied this system to marine logistics network. We compared current scenario and our system scenario. The result of these simulations suggests that the cost of empty container repositioning can be reduced by our planning system, and empty container repositioning is achieved by our planning system.


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    Title :

    Management of empty container repositioning considering leveling marine container logistics


    Contributors:
    Wang, Heng (author) / Tanaka, Kenji (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016-01-01


    Size :

    727045 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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