Continuously increasing global container trade and pressure from a limited number of large shipping companies are enforcing the need for efficient container terminals. By using internal material handling resources efficiently, transfer times and operating costs are reduced. We focus our study on container terminals using straddle carriers for transportation and storage operations. We assume tha...

This paper discusses the role of Geoinformatics in Shipping and Marine Transport as a new independent, autonomous self-contained, scientific discipline created for dealing with geospatial information. Depending on the scientific background of those involved in shaping the emerging discipline, little emphasis may be placed on various aspects of Geoinformatics. Maritime appli‐ cations and small d...

Rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) enables complete distribution of traveler information to end-users through the whole travel. European intelligent transportation system (ITS) architecture defines traveler information as specific functional area, and it comprises static and dynamic information about transport network condition, traveler information services a...

Maritime transportation market relies on a diverse set of stakeholders and it is strongly affected by their cultural and sectoral diversity. The plethora of existing telematic information services suffer from inflexibility in the sense of restricting the types of business models they allow. Thus the providers of such services are forced to assume predefined business models and processes that ar...

In the last decade, maritime piracy has affected the global economy that forced the countries to react. Most of the reaction is regarding force deployment in the affected regions. In this study, we present a simulation based analysis tool that aims at understanding the relationship between naval forces deployment and preventing piracy. We consider three stakeholders’ views; pirates, maritime tr...

Accident reports provide important insights into the causes and contributory factors leading to particular adverse events. In contrast, this paper provides an analysis that extends across the findings presented over ten years investigations into maritime accidents by both the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Canadian Transportation Safety Board (TSB). The purpose of the study ...

We study a deterministic maritime inventory routing problem with a long planning horizon. For instances with many ports and many vessels, mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers often require hours to produce good solutions even when the planning horizon is 90 or 120 periods. Building on the recent successes of approximate dynamic programming (ADP) for road-based applications within the ...

We introduce a new variant of the Traveling Salesman Problem inspired from applications within maritime transportation. The problem is to find a minimum cost tour of a set of ports, but includes draft limitation of some ports. This problem is henceforth referred to as the Traveling Salesman Problem with Draft Limits (TSPDL) and is an important subproblem in complex routing problems in maritime ...

This paper presents a novel multi-level hierarchical approach which models carrier interactions in international maritime freight transportation networks. Ocean carriers, land carriers and port terminal operators are considered. Port terminal operators, providing transportation services within a port complex, are regarded as a special type of the carrier, based on their behavior. The carriers m...