Sentence examples for transshipment base from inspiring English sources

The Portuguese used the islands as a transshipment base for slaves on their way from Africa to Brazil... Forced labor continued in one form or another right up until the islands gained their independence, in 1975... São Tomé is sitting on reserves of perhaps four billion barrels of crude oil.

In this paper, we propose a new transshipment policy for perishable items based on the age of the oldest item in the system to improve supply-chain performance.

Through defining logical variables that indicate the relative temperature positions of refrigerant streams after sub-coolers, the synthesis is formulated as a Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) problem based on LP transshipment model, with the target of minimizing the total compressor shaft work in the refrigeration system.

It is developed based on an improved transshipment model in a linear programming formulation.

Currently, transshipment in some blood supply chains is based on the age profile of units in hospitals.

To solve this problem we propose an algorithm linked to or based on the well-known traveling salesman model, the transshipment model and a proposed variant of the Dijkstra's algorithm.

Macharis et al. [18] investigate the influence of increased fuel prices and an internalization of external transport costs on the market areas of intermodal transshipment terminals in Belgium, using an all-or-nothing flow assignment based on a shortest path algorithm and price minimization.

We also compare the performance of the suggested transshipment policy to the transshipment policy that is currently practiced in some Australian hospitals (which is an aged based proactive transshipment policy with an empirically set threshold).

The procedure is confined to treat the single pollutant case, and it is based on a linear programming formulation that relies on necessary conditions of optimality and a heat transshipment model.

The model makes location/allocation decisions for the initial collection points and centralized return centers, based on the trade-offs between freight rate discounts and inventory cost savings resulting from consolidation and transshipment.

But South Korea's ambitious expansion of Pusan, its premier port, is based on expanding transshipments to 44percentt of its cargo total by 2011.