Session C01: Shipping and Port

 
Date: 11 May 2016
Time: 9:15 am - 10:45 am
Venue: R1108, R Core (Shirley Chan Building), PolyU
 
 
Session Chair: Dr Shuaian Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
 
This session consists of four studies that examine the various issues related to shipping and port.
  • The first study proposes a system dynamics model to investigate the relation and interaction between ports and cities. The system dynamics models incorporates the cause-and-effect logic and a feedback mechanism in order to capture the interactions. The case study of Shenzhen is examined and the simulation results are compared with the results of real data.

  • The objective of the second study is to develop a practical liner shipping fleet development (LSFD) model for network planners. The contributions of this study are two-folds. First, it presents a practical minimax regret model that captures uncertain demand, container transshipment, and empty container repositioning. Second, an inclusion method of dynamic scenarios is proposed to efficiently solve the minimax model which has a large size due to the incorporation of each demand scenario. The case study based on an Asia-Europe-Oceania liner shipping network demonstrates the applicability of the proposed model and method.

  • In the third study of this session, cost savings in shipping terminals confirm the need to create a network for the efficient organisation of the transportation of goods in the region under consideration. The author has proposed a heuristic method to develop an objective function for the purpose of analysing a terminal network. Examples are provided to demonstrate how the method is applied.

  • In the fourth study, the seaborne cold chain from a quantitative perspective is examined. A value-based decision model for operational and financial planning with Economic Value Added (EVA) as an objective function has been developed. The numerical results shed light on the main factors that affect the modal choice between reefer bulk and container vessels.
Title Author(s)
Contrastive research between innovation and investment on the economic impact of a port city: A case from China Zhen Chen (Lingnan Normal University)
A minimax regret model for liner shipping fleet deployment with uncertain demand Shuaian Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Zhiyuan Liu (School of Transportation, Southeast University) and Xiaobo Qu (Griffith University)
Generation and analysis of an objective function for calculating the parameters of a terminal network Pokrovskaya Oksana D. (Siberian Transport University)
Value-based performance optimisation in seaborne cold chain: Refrigerated container versus bulk Xiunian Zhang and Jasmine Siu Lee Lam (Nanyang Technological University)
 
 
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