On cost-efficiency of the global container shipping network |
| |
| Authors: | Dongping Song Jie Zhang Jonathan Carter Tony Field James Marshall John Polak Kimberly Schumacher Proshun Sinha-Ray John Woods |
| |
| Institution: |
a Complex Systems Modelling group (COSMIC), Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
b Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK |
| |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a simple formulation in the form of a pipe network for modelling the global container-shipping network. The cost-efficiency and movement-patterns of the current container-shipping network have been investigated using heuristic methods. The model is able to reproduce the overall incomes, costs, and container movement patterns for the industry as well as for the individual shipping lines and ports. It was found that the cost of repositioning empties is 27% of the total world fleet running cost and that overcapacity continues to be a problem. The model is computationally efficient. Implemented in the Java language, it takes one minute to run a full-scale network on a Pentium IV computer. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 InformaWorld 等数据库收录！ |
|
