Christiansen et al. [5] described models for designing shipping networks for a traditional liner operation as well as for a hub-and-spoke liner network.
Liner shipping operations are now increasingly involving transshipment in seaports that act as nodes in the network.
This proposal is concerned with model development for a short-term fleet deployment problem of liner shipping operations.
In view of some unique characteristics of the liner shipping operations, this paper proposes an efficient and exact branch-and-bound based ε-optimal algorithm.
Regarding hub port selection, Kurt et al. (2015) perform an analysis considering the Mediterranean Sea and indicate the location as the key factor, with proximity to main routes, cities, and ports; liner shipping connectivity; operation performance; sufficient capacity; and investment to develop infrastructure as important sub-factors.
It also supports the operation of blanket first wall maintenance and neutral beam duct liner module maintenance operations.
Stresses in the composite liner during the operation of bearings were calculated by the finite element method to check the reliability of the composite journal bearing, from which an optimum bonding condition between the steel back-up and the composite liner was suggested.
Table 8 Comparisons of the Significance of Categories between Hub and Spoke and Relay Category Monetary Time Port Traffic Location Operation Liner-related Hub and Spoke 4.54 4.67 3.87 4.13 4.00 3.44 Relay 4.31 4.40 3.79 4.12 3.90 3.31 t-stat 0.847 1.923* 0.674 0.102 1.227 0.875 Note: *represents significance at the 5% level.
With modular prostheses, which nowadays represent more than 90% of the femoral stems, easily removable parts such as head and liner are exchanged and the operation is then reported to the registry as a revision.
For relay networks, seven pairs of categories, namely, "Monetary-Liner-related," "Time-Port Traffic," "Time-OperaTime-Liner-related-related," "Port Traffic-Liner-related," "Location-Liner-related," and "Operation-Liner-related," obtained significant differences.
