The yard block of a container terminal is the central point of synchronisation for asynchronous container flows between deep-sea vessels and transport to the hinterland. The structure of the block stipulates that containers are stacked on top of each other with only the topmost container...

Placing special emphasis on the significant security issues associated with modern container international transport, this book provides in-depth exploration on both the US and European Union port and shipping policy, and that of wider international trade. The authors take an original and...

Sebastian Meiswinkel studies optimization problems that arise at container ports from a classic optimization as well as from a mechanism design point of view. The first part of this dissertation is focused on scheduling problems with selfish job owners that have private information about their...

Analysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority). New edition updated to take account of changes in regulation and legislation in the US, EU and UK. Many of these changes were in line with the recommendations made...

The current crisis is emerging as the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. This book examines its cause, the efforts to contain the crisis and proposes a cure that will limit the risk that such crises could recur in the future.

This book is a comparative study of the critical factors in berth productivity in Chinese and South Korean container terminals. It first defines the concept of berth productivity, and then establishes a regression model to evaluate the productivity factor. With the results obtained for the...

Container transportation is the predominant mode of inter-continental cargo traffic. Since container ships and port terminals involve a huge capital investment and significant daily operating costs, it is of crucial importance to efficiently utilize the internal resources of container terminals...

Studies the economic impact of the container traffic at one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean: the Port of Algeciras Bay, while analysing the framework of the containerisation business, explaining the physical characteristics of the PAB in relation to this activity, carrying an...

Tremendous annual growth rates of container volumes transhipped worldwide reflect an increasing demand of service capacity faced by container terminals. In spite of high utilization, terminals have to provide fast service processes to vessel operators. This book addresses the related seaside...

Legal and Functional Perspective of Freight Forwarding in Multimodal Transport Chains -- New Industrial Economics, Intermediation Theory, and the Intermediary Perspective -- Models of network Structure and the Network Perspective -- A Closer Look on Contemporary Social Network Analysis --...