Die "Digitale Transformation" wird von Wirtschaft, Verbänden und Politik seit Jahren als die zentrale Herausforderung zur Sicherung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Unternehmen und damit der gesamten deutschen Volkswirtschaft diskutiert. Neuere Studien zeigen, dass die Digitalisierung mittlerweile...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of third-party logistics providers (TPLs) in providing innovative logistics solutions for Brazilian importations. Design/methodology/approach: A multiple case study has been conducted in which four logistics service providers are...

In recent years several European municipalities have paired market-based measures with urban distribution centres (UDC) in order to reduce CO2 emissions and make more sustainable urban freight ‡ows. However, UDCs may add reloading costs and extra delivery times which have relevant impact on...

This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors addressing innovative and technology-based approaches for logistics and sustainability. They present simulation studies, systems and models for optimizations and digitalized solutions with a focus on maritime as...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: EINFÜHRUNG - GRUSSWORT - DAS PROJEKT 6 Einführung 8 Grußwort: Hubertus Heil, Bundesminister für Arbeit und Soziales 10 Die Sozialpartner U-B-H und ver.di im Gespräch 12 Das Projekt „ChancenVielfalt Bremische Häfen “ : Ansatz - Inhalte - Fazit 18 Bremische...

CONTENTS M anagement S ummary IV 1 Introduction 1 2 C ountry Insights C hina ...

Logistics section is one of the most important industrial sections to contribute to European economy. To improving efficiency and energy efficient of logistics, European Commission call new research theme "smart, green and integrated transport" in its H2020 program. The paper presents a version...

Contracts are used to coordinate disparate but interdependent members of the supply chain. Conflicting objectives of these members and lack of coordination among the members lead to inefficiencies in matching supply with demand. This study reviews different types of contracts and proposes a...

This paper deals with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) which transport containers between the quai and the stack on automated container terminals. The focus is on the assigment of transportation jobs to AGVs within a terminal control system operating in real time. First, we describe a rather...

In this paper, we propose a general model for various scheduling problems that occur in container terminal logistics. The scheduling model consists of the assignment of jobs to resources and the temporal arrangement of the jobs subject to precedence constraints and sequence-dependent setup...

This paper introduces an approach for generating scenarios of sea port container terminals. A scenario consists of arrivals of deep sea vessels, feeder ships, trains, and trucks together with lists of containers to be loaded and unloaded. Moreover, container attributes such as size, empty,...