Sentence examples for container shipment from inspiring English sources
An important contribution to the subject is in [8]; this paper proposes a short-term liner ship fleet planning problem by taking into account container transshipment and uncertain container shipment demand.
We propose the problem of profit-based container assignment (P-CA), in which the container shipment demand is dependent on the freight rate, similar to the "elastic demand" in the literature on urban transportation networks.
Given a set of port-to-port container shipment demands with delivery deadlines, the liner shipping company aims to design itineraries of portcalls, deploy ships on these itineraries and determine how to transport containers with the deployed ships in order to maximize its total profit.
This paper proposes a liner hub-and-spoke shipping network design problem by introducing the concept of a main port, as well as some container shipping constraints such as multi-type container shipment and transit time constraints, which are seldom considered in the previous studies.
Rod explained that every container shipment is screened upon arrival into Australia, and in this case the cigarettes were detected after officials noticed certain "anomalies" with the x-ray image.
It ranks about 13th among Japanese ports in container shipments, Mr. Higuchi said.
The latest forecasts show growth in demand for container shipments from Asia to Europe falling from 15% a year to barely 5%.
From January through September this year, Texas ports shipped $18.2 million to Cuba, but Dr. Rosson estimated that only $354,000 of that left through large container shipments from Houston.
In August, it moved from using RFID tags on container shipments to tracking individual pairs of jeans and underwear.
Thus, the use of the TSR for container shipments between East Asia and Western Europe amplifies the cost and lead time compared to other transport modes.
In order to understand the optimal strategies for improving the United States' economic competitiveness in this emerging market, this research develops an intermodal transportation network modeling framework, focusing on U.S. soybean container shipments.
