Container terminals play a critical role in international shipping and are under pressure to cope with increasing container traffic. The problem of managing container terminals effectively has a number of characteristics that suggest the use of agent technology would be beneficial. This paper describes a joint industry-university project which has explored the applicability of agent technology ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate cause-specific mortality among asbestos workers and potentially exposed workers in Belgium and evaluate potential excess in mortality due to established and suspected asbestos-related diseases. DESIGN This cohort study is based on an individual record linkage between the 1991 Belgian census and cause-specific mortality information for Flanders and Brussels (2001-2009)...

We introduce a novel, node flow based mathematical model for the fixed-time version of a central problem in the liner shipping industry called the Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem (LSFRP). We call this version of the problem the Inflexible Visitation LSFRP (IVLSFRP). During repositioning, vessels are moved between routes in a liner shipping network. Shipping lines wish to reposition v...

Taiwan has allowed women to have navigation education for already 15 years. Although the number of women who got seafarer qualification is significantly increasing, the number of hiring women seafarer is relatively low because shipping industries are shackled by traditional gender stereotypes. The shipping industry in Taiwan heavily depends on foreign seafarers, and with the large amount of upc...

<abstract> <p>On one hand, the academia has conducted a considerable amount of research on shipping operations but there are not many matches between and industry: little academic is applied to industry; other companies in urgent need decision support tools that can generate informed decisions lower cost, improve profitability, reduce environmental footprint. We propose Shipping Inf...