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Preface	p. xiii
Regional Developments and Performance Analysis	p. 1
Maritime Trade Evolutions and Port City Developments In Asia	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Evolution of Asia's Maritime Trade	p. 7
Ancient maritime trade between India and China, 1200-1450	p. 8
Maritime networks in colony times, 1500-1950	p. 9
Asia's maritime trade under globalization	p. 12
Asia Port Developments in the 1990s and Beyond	p. 14
Northeast Asia	p. 15
Southeast Asia	p. 23
South Asia ports	p. 30
Factors of Port Competitiveness and Development	p. 32
Port location	p. 32
Port efficiency	p. 35
Multimodal network	p. 37
Maritime trade strategy and institutional settings	p. 39
Lessons to be Learnt	p. 41
Conclusions	p. 44
References	p. 45
Recent Development of Maritime Logistics	p. 49
Development Trends on Global Container Shipping	p. 49
Global economic condition and industry perspective	p. 49
Recent trends in container shipping industry	p. 53
Liner Shipping	p. 54
Container liners	p. 54
Freight rates	p. 57
Ports	p. 58
Global container terminal operators	p. 58
Leading terminal operators	p. 60
Development in transshipment activities	p. 64
Improvement in port performance	p. 65
UNCTAD liner shipping connectivity index 2009	p. 65
Conclusions	p. 66
References	p. 67
Scenario Analysis for Hong Kong Port Development Under Changing Business Environment	p. 69
Introduction	p. 69
Literature Review	p. 72
Changing Business Environment for HKP	p. 74
Changing business environment in the PRD region	p. 74
Potential processing trade relocation trends	p. 75
A MIP Model	p. 78
Experimental Design	p. 81
Experimental scenarios	p. 81
Experimental data	p. 81
Results, Analysis and Findings	p. 82
Modeling results at base scenario	p. 82
Sensitivity analysis	p. 83
Scenario analysis and findings	p. 85
Conclusions and Future Work	p. 87
References	p. 88
Models for Port Competitive Analysis in Asia-Pacific Region	p. 91
Introduction	p. 92
Literature Review	p. 93
Port Benchmarking Models	p. 95
Port efficiency	p. 96
Port connectivity	p. 100
Impact of factors on individual ports	p. 105
Conclusion and Discussion	p. 111
References	p. 112
Is Port Throughput a Port Output?	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
Port Production Function	p. 118
Port Operating Options	p. 120
Port Resource Function	p. 120
Container Port Output	p. 121
TEU Throughput and the port production function	p. 121
TEU Throughput and port cost functions	p. 122
Port Interchange Service Measures	p. 126
Port revenue	p. 126
Port throughput ratio	p. 127
Conclusion	p. 127
References	p. 128
A Framework for Modelling and Benchmarking Maritime Clusters: An Application to the Maritime Cluster of Piraeus	p. 131
Introduction	p. 132
Conceptual Definition: Cluster Theory and Maritime Clusters	p. 132
The Concept of Maritime Clusters	p. 133
Spatial Paradigm: The Greater Area of Piraeus	p. 137
The structure of the Piraeus maritime cluster	p. 138
The economic footprint of the maritime industry in the region	p. 140
SWOT analysis	p. 141
Methods for Evaluating and Benchmarking Maritime Clusters	p. 143
General cluster sizing indicators	p. 145
Intra-cluster performance indicators	p. 147
On the use of data and analysis for measuring performance of maritime clusters	p. 149
Computational Methods for Simulation and Life-Cycle Management of Maritime Clusters	p. 151
Agent-based modeling and simulation	p. 151
Modeling case study: the maritime cluster of Piraeus	p. 152
Agent-based modeling toolkit	p. 154
Conclusions	p. 154
References	p. 156
A Performance Evaluation Strategy Towards Dealers in the Automotive Supply Chain	p. 157
Introduction	p. 157
Problems of Dealer Evaluation	p. 158
Indicators Definition for Dealers' Performance Evaluation	p. 160
Balanced scorecard method	p. 160
Evaluation indicators definition	p. 160
Dealers' Performance Evaluation via ANP	p. 162
Analytic network process (ANP)	p. 162
Enabling factors of dealers' performance	p. 162
Procedure of dealers' performance evaluation	p. 163
Method for dealers' performance evaluation	p. 167
Case Study	p. 168
Conclusions	p. 169
References	p. 169
Ports and liners operations	p. 171
A Yard Allocation Strategy for Export Containers Via Simulation and Optimization	p. 173
Introduction	p. 173
Related Work	p. 174
Yard allocation for import containers	p. 174
Yard allocation for export containers	p. 175
Combined yard allocation	p. 175
Yard Allocation Modeling for Export Containers	p. 176
Problem description	p. 176
Yard allocation modeling	p. 176
Yard Allocation Algorithm for Export Containers	p. 181
Heuristic algorithm for feasible solution	p. 182
Procedure of genetic algorithm	p. 183
Simulation Model	p. 185
Simulation framework	p. 185
Input parameters	p. 186
Simulation process	p. 186
Statistical simulation indices	p. 187
Case Study	p. 188
Conclusions	p. 190
References	p. 191
Integration of AGVS in Intermodal Rail Operations at Deep Sea Terminals	p. 193
Introduction	p. 193
Earlier Attempts to Address the Problem	p. 195
Fixed rail mounted gantry cranes linking ship to shore crane with stacking area and hinterland modes rail and road	p. 195
NOELL - an approach by K.-P. FRANKE	p. 195
The AGV-solution to Integrate Railway Operations in Deep Sea Terminals	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 200
References	p. 200
On the Ongoing Increase of Containership Size	p. 201
Introduction	p. 201
Economies of Ship Size	p. 203
Modeling ship size economies	p. 203
Capital related costs	p. 203
Labour related costs	p. 207
Shipping Costs of Post Panamax Containerships	p. 209
Fixed annual costs	p. 210
Fuel costs	p. 210
Shipping costs per roundtrip	p. 211
The Ongoing Increase of Containership Size	p. 216
Development of ship size and trade	p. 216
Factors limiting economies of ship size	p. 218
A balance between user and producer costs	p. 221
Factors affecting development of user costs	p. 223
Conclusions	p. 225
References	p. 227
A Linearized Approach for Liner Ship Fleet Planning with Demand Uncertainty	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
Background	p. 229
Literature review	p. 230
Randomness	p. 232
Contributions	p. 233
Problem Description, Assumptions and Notations	p. 234
Itinerary	p. 234
Charter strategies	p. 235
Chance constraints	p. 236
Notations	p. 238
A Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Model with Chance Constraints	p. 239
A Linearized Approach	p. 243
Numerical Example	p. 247
Summary and Conclusion	p. 254
References	p. 254
Ship Emissions, Costs and Their Tradeoffs	p. 257
Introduction	p. 257
Background	p. 260
Some Basics: Algebra of Emissions and Fuel Cost	p. 267
A Simple Logistical Scenario: Factors and Tradeoffs	p. 268
The Cost to Avert One Tonne of CO2	p. 281
The Port Time Factor	p. 283
Speed Reduction at SECAs	p. 287
SECAs Continued: Effect on Modal Split	p. 290
Conclusions	p. 292
References	p. 293
Exploring Tanker Market Elasticity with Respect to Oil Production Using Foresim	p. 297
Introduction	p. 297
Methodology	p. 300
Simulation Results	p. 308
Conclusions	p. 311
References	p. 313
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