中国铁道部正大力推进集装箱多式联运

In china today,containers acconut for only 10% of all rail traffic volume in order to push forward china's container multimodal transport,the ministry of railways(MOR)is working hard to get domestic shippers/forwarders to containerise their conventional general cargo shipments,and for intemational ocean carriers,to get them to move a larger proprotion of the boxex inland by rail.     

中国集装箱港口发展分析

Over the recent ten years,China‘s container transport has witnessed a tremendous development side by side with china‘s successful development of foreign trade,owing to the fact that more and more coastal and inland river ports have gone for container transport in succession,     

长江三角洲集装箱多式联运发展前景

Featuring modemization and high efficiency,multimodalism constitutes the most advanced stage of container transport in its development.With its salient superiorities and along with the process of global econcmic integration and technological progress,container multimodal transport has been popularized in many developed countries,and in some developing countries as well.     

A study on Automatic Reefer Monitoring Solutions in Container Terminals

With the fast improvement of the technology of refrigeration in reefer containers (hereinafter referred to as 'reefer' or 'reefers'),the scope of containerizable reefer cargos is expanded continuously in the past years,from the fish that should be frozen at minus 60 degrees Celsius to the flower bulbs at 30 degrees Celsius and from the temperature-sensitive goods whose deviation should be less than 1 degree Celsius to the fresh fruits and vegetables controlled by humidityventilation adjustment system.Being an important node in the logistics chain,the container terminal (hereinafter referred to as ‘CT') should pay more attention to these state-of-the-art techniques and adopt the accordingly suitable technology to optimize its reefer monitoring business in order to provide the highly cost-effective services to ship owners (or their agents) and shippers / consignees (or their brokers).     

集装箱货运仿真模型在珠三角港港口投资方案评估(英文)

In the Pearl River Delta (PRD), there is severe competition between container ports, particularly those in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, for collecting international maritime container cargo. In addition, the second phase of the Nansha terminal in Guangzhou’s port and the first phase of the Da Chang Bay container terminal in Shenzhen opened last year. Under these circumstances, there is an increasing need to quantitatively measure the impact these infrastructure investments have on regional cargo flows. The analysis should include the effects of container terminal construction, berth deepening, and access road construction. The authors have been developing a model for international cargo simulation (MICS) which can simulate the movement of cargo. The volume of origin-destination (OD) container cargo in the East Asian region was used as an input, in order to evaluate the effects of international freight transportation policies. This paper focuses on the PRD area and, by incorporating a more detailed network, evaluates the impact of several infrastructure investment projects on freight movement.     

多式联运业务中货主、货代和联运经营人有关知识介绍

The multimodal transport industry is inherently complicated the very nature of the business makes it so intemationally it has developed very rapidly and is continuing to do so Domestically,China has made a good start with sahanghai,Guang zhou and dalian as its multimodal transport hubs.     

阿姆斯特丹港的PARAGON码头

The Paragon Terminal constructed by CERES Terminal and Stevedores Inc. of the USA will be completed in July 2001. This dock-type terminal (or to be called indented berth, or slip berth)can enable simultaneous handling of containers on both the portside and the starboard side of a huge container ship. Therefore it can suit the container transport development in this new century.     

China＇s Transport situation—Review of 97 and prospects for ＇98 中国运输业形势分析

1 An analysis of china‘s transport performance in 1997 1.1 along with the steady development of its national economy,china‘s traffic volume achieved a moderate growth in the year of 1997.annual everage growth rates for various modes of transportation were as follows:     

LEGISLATION IN CHINA

China launches its inland navigational channel and port layout;The first programme of national waterborne transport safety released;Ship＇s endorsement management regulations, as modified, to be effective on October 1.     

Legal Problems Concerning ＂Other Maritime Liens＂

It is more likely accepted that maritime liea is an old and unique statutory right in different maritime legislation or laws in the world. In the past few decades, the intemational organizations have made good efforts in establishing three conventions for the unification of laws concerning maritime liens and mortgages, i.e. the Intenational Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Maritime Mortgages and Liens, 1926 (hereinafter referred to as the Convention 1926),     

Model and algorithm for container ship stowage planning based on bin-packing problem

In a general case, container ship serves many different ports on each voyage. A stowage planning for container ship made at one port must take account of the influence on subsequent ports. So the complexity of stowage planning problem increases due to its multi-ports nature. This problem is NP-hard problem. In order to reduce the computational complexity, the problem is decomposed into two sub-problems in this paper. First, container ship stowage problem （CSSP） is regarded as “packing problem”, ship-bays on the board of vessel are regarded as bins, the number of slots at each bay are taken as capacities of bins, and containers with different characteristics （homogeneous containers group） are treated as items packed. At this stage, there are two objective functions, one is to minimize the number of bays packed by containers and the other is to minimize the number of overstows. Secondly, containers assigned to each bays at first stage are allocate to special slot, the objective functions are to minimize the metacentric height, heel and overstows. The taboo search heuristics algorithm are used to solve the subproblem. The main focus of this paper is on the first subproblem. A case certifies the feasibility of the model and algorithm.     

MESSAGE from the Director

On the occasion of the additional issue of the CONTAINERIZATION, I'd like to express my sincere appreciation to the readers and authors both at home and abroad on behalf of the CONTAINERIZATION. The container transport in China is booming with leaps and bounds and the CONTAINERIZATION is becoming prosperous with each passing day. With the concern, support and help of the Ministry of Communications, Shanghai News Publication Administration     

基于模拟减少集装箱船待港时间的实用方法(英文)

The main challenge for container ports is the planning required for berthing container ships while docked in port.Growth of containerization is creating problems for ports and container terminals as they reach their capacity limits of various resources which increasingly leads to traffic and port congestion.Good planning and management of container terminal operations reduces waiting time for liner ships.Reducing the waiting time improves the terminal’s productivity and decreases the port difficulties.Two important keys to reducing waiting time with berth allocation are determining suitable access channel depths and increasing the number of berths which in this paper are studied and analyzed as practical solutions.Simulation based analysis is the only way to understand how various resources interact with each other and how they are affected in the berthing time of ships.We used the Enterprise Dynamics software to produce simulation models due to the complexity and nature of the problems.We further present case study for berth allocation simulation of the biggest container terminal in Iran and the optimum access channel depth and the number of berths are obtained from simulation results.The results show a significant reduction in the waiting time for container ships and can be useful for major functions in operations and development of container ship terminals.     

Design and implementation of a visual monitoring system to ensure safety in the water surrounding a container vessel

Container vessels navigate among the world's ports,frequently passing through narrow and congested waters.Due to the many layers of containers on a container vessel's decks,it is difficult for the crew to be aware of all fishing vessels and other obstacles in a container vessel's radar observation blind zone.This greatly increases the risk of collisions and other accidents.Given such great challenges to safe navigation and safety management with container vessels,their security risks are severe.An effective visual monitoring system can improve the safety of the water area surrounding container vessel by eliminating a vessel's observation blind zone,providing an effective safety measure for vessels navigating fishing zones and other troublesome areas.The system has other functions,such as accident recording,ship security,and monitoring of loading and unloading operations,thus ensuring the ship operates safely.Six months'trial operation showed that the system facilitates safe navigation of container vessels.     

China Containerization Development——Container Lines Transpot

Chapter One Containerization During the rapid and stable development of China's economy and foreign trade, coastal ports act as windows for the nation to join in the economic globalization trend, adding that the container transport has become an important…     

从国际集装箱枢纽港建设看上海港发展前景

container shipping lines require hab ports to possess the fehowing conttions Drart of mafor conalner hub ports and their tlder differences some majer hub ports developttental programine eanctbore to be denned for the port of shunghml in the centext if international container transport comsiderahons of water depth for the international container hub port of shanghai conefesions to be drawn     

牵引车-飞机系统的路径跟踪控制(英文)

An aircraft tractor plays a significant role as a kind of important marine transport and support equipment. It’s necessary to study its controlling and manoeuvring stability to improve operation efficiency. A virtual prototyping model of the tractor-aircraft system based on Lagrange’s equation of the first kind with Lagrange mutipliers was established in this paper. According to the towing characteristics, a path-tracking controller using fuzzy logic theory was designed. Direction control herein was carried out through a compensatory tracking approach. Interactive co-simulation was performed to validate the path-tracking behavior in closed-loop. Simulation results indicated that the tractor followed the reference courses precisely on a flat ground.     

中国船用产品上船难于上青天

In recent years,China‘s shipbuilding industry has witnessed rapid growth.It‘s reported that china has set the goal to grab 16% of the world market share with the annual output of shipbuilding reaching 10 million deadweight tonnage by 2005, and 24 million deadweight tonnage representing 35% of the world market share by 2015. In addition, over 80% of the marine equipment to be installed on board will be made in China by 2010, compared with the current ratio of 30%. Is it possible for China to realize this goal in less than six years? No wonder there lies a doubt.     

Shipping News

BOX traffic boom in Changjiang region The container transport along the Changjiang River is developing rapidly. According to Shanghai port statistics,container lines initiated from the Changjiang ports to Shanghai has amounted to 11 with 21,000 TEU monthly volume, one times that of the last same period. The rapid development has attracted quite a lot of cornpanies to engage in cornpetition. Up to now,80％of total 150 domestic international lines set up cargo agencies at the Changjiang ports. Moreover, the container boom gives an impetus to the construction, rebudding and expansion for the transport facilities of the Changjiang ports. Additionally, the transhiprnent statiorls in the hinterland of the ports and along the major highways are being established along with the boom.