(PDF) Economic benefits of deploying foldable containers: Reducing

We use the model to minimize total transportation costs, inventory holding, handling, folding and unfolding, container leasing, and installing facilities that accommodate foldable containers.

Ship type decision considering empty container repositioning and

Ship type decision considering empty container repositioning and foldable containers Abstract: This paper addresses a problem of ship type decision considering empty container repositioning and

Container Drayage Transportation Scheduling With Foldable and

In this article, we focus on a novel container drayage transportation problem involving foldable and standard containers simultaneously. Four types of container tasks are required to be scheduled

ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF USING BOTH FOLDABLE AND

We analyze the effects of foldable containers using a newly developed multi-port and multi-period container planning model. The proposed model is a large-scale optimization problem, for which we

The Impacts of Foldable Containers, Street-Turn and Depot-Direct

We investigated the impacts of foldable containers, street-turn and depot-direct strategies on the container repositioning cost. To test our proposed model, a hypothetical case study has been

Do Foldable Containers Enhance Efficient Empty Container

This study considers the empty container repositioning problem of shipping companies that use standard and 3-in-1 foldable containers with more advanced designs. A mathematical model

Reliable design of container shipping network with foldable container

We comprehensively analyzed numerical experiments to illustrate trade-offs between cost savings and potential risks concerning reliability in supply of empty containers by using a mix of

Conditions for Grid-Connected Transactions of Foldable Containers

Are foldable containers a solution to empty container repositioning? The paper explores the potential of foldable containers as a solution for the costly issue of empty container repositioning in maritime

Optimization of container scheduling considering the use of foldable

To address these issues, this study considers the use of foldable containers when utilizing the remaining capacity of vessels for empty container repositioning. A multi-period linear