How to rethink pricing at container terminals | McKinsey
This second kind of variable pricing interests us most, because it benefits both terminal operators and their customers, the container lines—the
We study a terminal operator's optimal container unloading and storage pricing strategies. Unlike the existing literature that ignores the interaction between these two prices, we propose a novel...
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This second kind of variable pricing interests us most, because it benefits both terminal operators and their customers, the container lines—the
We study a terminal operator''s optimal container unloading and storage pricing strategies. Unlike the existing literature that ignores the interaction between these two prices, we propose a...
In this paper, a bi-level model is proposed, which integrate the pricing, the operation planning, and competition from road transportation, to maximize the profit of rail operators. The lower level is
Abstract In the management of container sea-rail intermodal transportation, dynamic pricing problem with uncertain conditions has significant impacts on the benefit and competitiveness
This paper analyses some of the implications of the emergence of dedicated container terminals (DCT) in the past 10 years. It presents a general
Extensive numerical experiments based on realistic Asia-North America (West Coast) container shipping operations show that the model can be solved by Excel Solver. A case study for a
Cost-efficient and reliable electrification of container terminals from design to project execution with ABB''s domain expertise.
For second-generation Outposts racks, each logical Outpost deployment comes with an Outposts network rack, which incurs no additional charge. You can purchase Outposts rack capacity for a
We analyze how an ocean carrier should set an inbound container storage price to the customers, when facing the contract given by the container terminal operator.
PDF | On Jan 1, 2024, Khaled Mili published Optimizing Container Terminal Operations: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchical and Integrated Solution
The analysis finds that genetic algorithms, integer linear programming and heuristics are the most widely used operations research techniques in container ter-minal optimization.
The planning decisions related to the assignment of quay cranes and internal trucks to the berthed vessels in container terminals are typically made
Based on the shortcomings of SRP contracts, this paper proposes a more flexible and effective pricing strategy FRP to achieve a better trade-off between costs and profits in a container
The time-of-use (TOU) pricing policy has prompted container terminals to reoptimize their operations planning to decrease electricity costs. However, it is an essential challenge to optimally
A dynamic pricing model was established based on forecasting the demand for container handling of a specific shipping company to maximize
Construct a reliable model to optimize quay crane-straddle carrier-yard crane integrated scheduling in the stereo container terminal.
A container terminal is a specialized terminal facility that handles the transshipment, storage, and temporary storage of containers between at least two transportation
An integrated operation model with quay crane maintenance in a container terminal has emerged as a topic of increasing interest in the field of port logistics management. Fig. 1 typically
The proposed approach combining opera-tion planning and pricing policies is meaningful to build the gap between the pricing and rail operation planning. In this paper, a bi-level mathematical model,
Container terminals face tremendous pressure to improve their throughput due to the expanding global shipping market. As a key for throughput, handling capacity requires effective
We study the ocean carrier''s pricing scheme for inbound container storage. We analyze how an ocean carrier should set an inbound container storage price to the customers, when facing the contract
In this paper, we intend to improve container terminal operation efficiency from the perspective of inbound container storage pricing. We study a two-stage pricing game model for a...