Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics : Making Global Supply Chains Effective

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.