The dramatic increasing of sea-freight container transportations and the developing trend for using containers in the multimodal handling systems through the sea, rail, road and land in the present market cause some challenges to the general managers of container terminals such as increasing demand, competitive situation, new investments and expansion of new activities and the need to use new m...

the dramatic increasing of sea-freight container transportations and the developing trend for using containers in the multimodal handling systems through the sea, rail, road and land in the present market cause some challenges to the general managers of container terminals such as increasing demand, competitive situation, new investments and expansion of new activities and the need to use new m...

Forwarding air freight cargo globally from the shipper’s door to the door of the consignee is a complex logistic process and involves freight handling by several collaborating logistics companies. The door to door process is currently standardized by the International Air Transport Association with the industry initiative Cargo 2000. Many individuals with their own perspectives along the logist...

In this paper, a Q-Learning method for trasfer scheduling of freight cars in a train is proposed. In the proposed method, the number of freight-movements in order to line freights in the desired order is reflected by evaluation value for each pair of freight-layout and removal-destination at a freight yard. The best transfer scheduling can be derived by selecting the removal-action of freight t...

A prototype of a computerized accident risk assessment tool for freight transport in Finland has been constructed based on a concept developed in an earlier stage of the study project. The tool is based on a realistic description on the road, rail and waterway networks, and real data on traffic flows and the occurrence of injury accidents on freight transports in Finland. The estimates of accid...

BACKGROUND: For whole blood aggregation on the Multiplate® system, the use of thrombin inhibitor as anticoagulant is recommended. So far sample tubes containing liquid lepirudin were provided (Dynabyte, Munich, Germany). They are not sterile and have to be stored refrigerated. For better handling now also sterile tubes with dried hirudin, storable at room temperature, are also provided (Dynabyt...

Enzymatic browning in avocado puree and guacamole was evaluated by reflectance measurements for several varieties of avocado with varying amounts of chemical additives. Paste from Booth 8 had a greater tendency to brown than that from Lula. Browning at 75°F was effectively retarded without flavor change by 30 mg percent of sodium bisulfite or 200 mg percent ascorbic acid. Lemon juice or citric ...

We analyse maintenance cost data for Swedish railway infrastructure in relation to traffic volumes and network characteristics, and separate the cost impact from passenger and freight trains. Lines with mixed passenger and freight traffic, and dedicated freight lines are analysed separately using both log-linear and BoxCox regression models. We find that for mixed lines, the Box-Cox specificati...

This paper considers a routing and scheduling problem of forwarding agencies handling less-than-truckload (LTL) freight. On the one hand, the performance of these companies is influenced by unknown customer orders, increasingly received shortly before the actual pickup. On the other hand, the transport times between two consecutive points in a tour sometimes vary significantly. The objective is...