Common middleware platforms support software components by providing a number of standard container services. Adding new container services can adapt a system to changed requirements without modifying its constituent components. Custom-made container services can intercept communication calls between system’s components and enforce new or changed requirements. Hence, legacy or off-the-shelf com...

In this contribution we optimize the transportation of containers in the hinterland of a local area with one terminal and one depot for empty containers and trucks. There are several customers who want to receive goods by inbound containers and several customers who want to ship goods by outbound containers. Additionally, there are empty inbound containers and empty outbound containers. We pres...

We have developed a new technique based on the passive gamma method for measuring a quantity of uranium in a uranium waste container (1200 liter volume). The measurement system consists of three NaI (Tl)detectors, one High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector and a handling system. The measuring method uses two discrete gamma-ray energies emitted from the daughter nuclide Pa-234m (1001 keV and 766 ...

The Russian economy will have to adjust its logistics face the new reality. operationali­zation of multimodal International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is an important strategic part it. This “pivot South” by Russia and other Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries particular significance in light required reconfiguration supply chains Eurasia. exporters, importers freight forwardin...

The aim of the research is to identify and quantify direct economic effects resulting from improved seaport nautical access capacity expansion. This case study considers a regional port located in Baltic sea relates users, i.e., shipping operators shippers. were identified for maritime transport by comparing performance two scenarios: with-the-investment without-the-investment. Incremental calc...

This paper formulates the 3D Container ship Loading Planning Problem (3D CLPP) and also proposes a new and compact representation to efficiently solve it. Containers on board a Container ship are placed in vertical stacks, located in different sections. The only way to access the containers is through the top of the stack. In order to unload a container at a given port j, it is necessary to rem...

In an Euclidean d-space, the container problem asks to pack n equally sized spheres into a minimal dilate of a fixed container. If the container is a smooth convex body and d ≥ 2 we show that solutions to the container problem can not have a “simple structure” for large n. By this we in particular find that there exist arbitrary small r > 0, such that packings in a smooth, 3-dimensional convex ...

This paper focuses on a fleet management problem that arises in container trucking industry. From the container transportation company perspective, the present and future operating costs to minimize can be divided in three components: the routing costs, the resource (i.e., driver and truck) assignment costs and the container repositioning costs (i.e., the costs of restoring a given container fl...

The last decade has seen tremendous investments in new container ports, vessels, and linked onshore transportation systems. Due to the high level of customer service requested and the complexity of logistic processes in seaport container terminals, many terminal operators have attempted to improve the performance of their terminals by applying new technologies including automated equipment, adv...