Maritime Business Review: Volume 4 Issue 3 , Open Access

Empty container movements arising from cargo seasonality: Turkish terminals

Ahmet Selcuk Basarici, Tanzer Satir

The purpose of this study is to reveal the magnitude of empty container movements (ECM) arising from cargo seasonality by means of long-term datasets of Turkish terminals. Trade…

A heuristic algorithm for multiple trip vehicle routing problems with time window constraint and outside carrier selection

Ching-Wu Chu, Hsiu-Li Hsu

In this paper, the authors introduced a real world new problem, the multi-trip vehicle routing problem with time windows and the possible use of a less-than-truckload carrier to…

The implication of the stochastic gross-profit-per-day objective on the cargo ship profitability, capacity, and speed

Said El Noshokaty

This paper aims to study the implication of the stochastic gross-profit-per-day objective on the ship profitability and the ship capacity and speed.

Model and analysis of the effect of China’s potential domestic emission control area with 0.1% sulphur limit

Shuaian Wang, Chuansheng Peng

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of China’s potential domestic emission control area (DECA) with 0.1 per cent sulphur limit on sulphur emission reduction.

Exploring the development of Malaysian seaports as a hub for tourism activities

Jagan Jeevan, Mohamad Rosni Othman, Zuha Rosufila Abu Hasan, Thi Quynh Mai Pham, Gyei Kark Park

The purpose of this paper is to explore the prospects of Malaysian seaports as hubs for seaport tourism. This symbiosis nexus between seaports and tourism needs to be explored to…