Container movement involves several stakeholders where each group is focused on achieving its own objectives. By actively considering the perspective of different maritime stakeholders, this paper identifies a set of implementation strategies and prioritizes them to successfully implement an ‘Inland-Depots-for-Empty-Containers’ (IDEC) system in a region. It builds on the authors’ earlier work t...

extended abstractintroductionafter the cold war, geostrategic face took on a geo-economic domain. this means that on the world stage, economic competition, replaced military competition. hence the geopolitical divisions, geographic areas classified according to their economic importance and competition has intensified around the area. given that the earth is 4/3 with water and based on the theo...

Contemporary maritime piracy presents a significant threat to the global shipping industry, with annual costs estimated at up to US$12bn. To address the threat, commanders and policymakers need new data-driven decision-support tools that will allow them to plan and execute counter-piracy activities most effectively. So far, however, the provision of such tools has been very limited. To fill thi...

The paper explores the evolving relationship between the port and terminal industry and the financial sector. Since the financial industry has taken an active role in global economic affairs, understanding global trade and transportation requires more than ever a perspective about financial issues and their impacts on transport operations. Paradoxically, the recent analytical emphasis on the st...

In contrast to domestic trade, international trade inherently requires more intensive use of skilled labor with expertise in areas such as international business, language skills, and maritime insurance, and the transoceanic transportation is more capital intensive than the local transportation. In the presence of such bias in factor demands, globalization caused by an improvement in the export...

Vehicle routing problems are an essential element in transportation planning and logistics. In particular, maritime transportation plays a crucial role in international trade, managing most of long-distance shipments. Static and deterministic vehicle routing problems have been extensively studied in the literature and metaheuristics have shown to be capable of providing near optimal solutions f...