The results presented in this article identify the role of costs in the scientific and grey freight terminal handling literature and analyses the handling costs of different terminal sizes. The literature review shows that handling costs only play a marginal role in the scientific research in intermodal rail freight terminals (IRT). This is remarkable given the large role costs occupy in decisi...

The study and use of multi-robot teams has become more prevalent within academia and industry as the capability and autonomy of these systems continues to improve (Arai, Pagello, and Parker 2002). With high levels of progress already made concerning the control of individual robots, the acknowledged advantages of multi-robot systems (MRS) has resulted in considerable research attention in the l...

• Sri Lanka does not cultivate opium. There is illicit cultivation of cannabis. Seizure figures demonstrate that the number of arrests and court cases have both increased in the recent past. • The single most significant drug problem is the trafficking of heroin from India for local consumption. • Sri Lanka serves as a transhipment hub for heroin trafficked into the country mainly from Indian l...

This paper brings a preliminary viewpoint on the interface between port cities, urban regions and their transportation systems in the particular context of Singapore. The development of the regional Singaporian transactional space includes the province of Johor in Malaysia and the Riau islands in Indonesia. The resulting spatial pattern and linkages form an Extended Metropolitan Region (EMR). W...

The administration of transhipment systems has become increasingly important in many applications such as position-based services, supply cycle management, travel control, and so on. These applications usually involve queries over spatial networks with vigorously changing and problematical travel conditions. There may be possibilities of user's privacy violated when they are querying about the ...

The purpose of this paper is to show the efficiency of application of system dynamic simulation modelling when researching the behaviour dynamics of the port transhipment process, and finding the optimal solution for cargo handling with regard to the type and scope of cargo traffic, directions of movement, and pace of receiving and shipping of cargo. In view of the potential scientific implemen...

Generally, vessels are deployed as hub-and-spoke networks to achieve high slot utilization and cost efficiency for shipping lines in global maritime container networks. At the Port of Colombo, most transhipment containers originate from destined Indian ports, export/import volume which has been rapidly increasing, ports have developed accommodate vessel enlargement. In such circumstances, parti...

Container Terminals (CTs) are the transportation nodes at which containerised freight is transhipped between ships and overland transport. CTs are a vital element of a country’s transportation infrastructure and in the UK they are classed as part of the country’s Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). This article explains the dependence of modern CTs on Information and Communications Technolo...

Seaports are crucial for regional development as they offer an employment to adjacent societies through industrialisation and value-added services. Since Asia has become a manufacturing hub the world economy with large volume of exports imports, this paper investigates trading pattern container line services three major ports in Asia: that is, Shanghai, Singapore Busan. Ports compete co-operate...

Research background: The paper background is based on the importance of maritime trade. offers a proposal for container transport in two different directions along routes, taking into consideration all trends development port transhipment facilities as well transport. final comparison determined criteria such speed and complexity transport, distance, price transportation, risk endangering cargo...