"Small shippers rarely get great rates from the carriers, and small- to medium-size carriers rarely have the marketing staff and IT capabilities to match the big guys in the market," explained Cunningham.
However, our case study is rather that of a medium-size carrier, which cannot afford either using inland depots or the acquisition of a large container fleet.
This paper investigates a drayage problem, which is motivated by the case study of a medium-size carrier providing door-to-door freight transportation services.
Yet, the proposed model is only feasible when the number of importers and exporters is in the order of the many tens, which however is very reasonable for our case of a medium-size carrier.
This is already more than enough to cater the needs of the medium-size carrier originating this study, which handles about 150 containers in peak days: the set-covering model could effectively support the routing decision process even if the carrier container volumes would triplicate.
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The latest model even supports medium sized DSLRs.
Overall, medium sized ROH were most common.
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