Advances in port studies: the contribution of 40 years Maritime Policy & Management

Port economics, management and policy have progressively emerged as a distinctive research field, and a core part of maritime economics. This paper provides an analysis of all the 267 port studies published in Maritime Policy & Management (MPM) since its inception in 1973. This paper provides a content analysis for seven interrelated research theme categories including main research topics and methods, authorship distribution and citation counts. It is demonstrated that MPM played, and continues to play, a key role in publishing research on seaports. The published research increasingly applies established analytical frameworks to ports. The paper concludes with a discussion on current challenges for port-related research.     

风能在船舶上的应用现状及展望

随着能源危机及国际海事组织对新船能效设计指数EEDI进一步优化的要求,新能源的大力推广已成为未来船舶发展的方向。针对风能作为一种新型能源在船舶上广阔的应用前景,分析介绍了风能在船舶上的几种应用形式,重点阐述了风帆助航目前国内外研究的进展情况及现状,提出并展望其未来的研究发展方向,为未来船舶的节能减排起到一定的指导意义。     

基于并行协同理论的船舶设计过程研究

船舶设计是以仿真模型为基础的,通过对船舶设计流程中仿真模型建立过程的研究,在并行协同模式下对传统船舶设计流程进行改造,调整各专业工作内容,达到各个设计阶段并行协同的目的,也是便于整个设计阶段的无缝连接,可以大幅提高设计制造的质量和效率。否则难以体现和预测各个阶段出现的不协调。     

MQ5039型双四连杆多用途门座起重机

MQ5039型双四连杆多用途门座起重机是为满足通用码头的多货种装卸要求而设计的新型门座起重机。起重机在满足码头散货装卸的要求之外,还能使用集装箱自动吊具高效吊装集装箱。提升码头通用性能,大幅提高装卸速度。     

浙江LNG码头总平面布置试验研究

浙江LNG码头是我国目前最大的LNG码头之一,所处环境相对复杂,在项目设计过程中,为确定合理的码头总 平面布置方案、保证船舶安全系靠泊,采用了物理模型试验的方法,对3个不同的平面布置方案进行了比较,通过试验得出 不同方案下的船舶运动量及系缆力等参数,通过分析试验结果最终明确了合理的总平面布置方案。     

A cause of oversupply and failure in the shipping market: measuring herding behavior effects

ABSTRACT

The shipping market is volatile. In general, the shipping market cycle shows four stages, through—recovery—peak—collapse, while a upward trend lasts for 7~8 years and a downward trend for another 7~8 years. So the market’s bubble is not sustainable but always ends in a recessionary trend. The economic cycle is common knowledge and an axiom of the shipping industry, but many ship-owners take no account of it. Previous study stated that ship-owners’ fears, triggered by a violently changeable market, make them mimic the crowd mind or herd mentality, following market sentiment. This study aims to measure the effects of herding behavior (HB), triggered by market sentiment, on the shipping market. We attempt to address two research questions: (1) How does HB arise, and what course does it follow? (2) How many vessels (or how many tons) were purchased under the influence of HB? We estimate that 50.5% (227.8 vessels) of the total vessels or 30.4% (3,670.2 tons) of the total tonnage were purchased under the influence of HB. Looking at international finance, we found that ship investment HB is a very strong factor of the recent shipping market, at least in Korea.     

Next generation mega container ports: implications of traffic composition on sea space demand

ABSTRACT

Demand for sea space brought about by increasing container-shipping traffic has important implications on how this space is managed and used. This is particularly important given the long-term nature, high-asset specificity, high- opportunity cost of investment, and significant economic impact of container port activity on a locality. The challenge is especially pressing for ports, which are facing constraints in seaside capacity where container traffic also has to co-exist with the needs of other types of ship traffic. This challenge is likely be multiplied for next generation container ports, which are expected to handle even larger traffic volumes. These ports are also likely to face competing sea space demands from other economic and social activities especially when they are concurrently major confluences of trade, logistics, and urban populations. This is the first research to investigate in detail the impact and importance of investigating sea space requirements from the perspective of cargo traffic composition and ship capacity. Results show that transshipment containers can generate much higher demand for sea space due to the higher volume of shipping capacity that accompanies such traffic. Sustainability issues and managerial and policy implications pertaining to the development of next generation container ports are provided.     

Evaluating the service requirements of dedicated container terminals: a revised IPA model with fuzzy AHP

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the service requirements of dedicated container terminals (DCTs). In this article, the service attributes (SAs) of DCTs were first discussed. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process model was then constructed to measure the users’ perceived importance and dissatisfaction for each of the SAs. Based on these two measurements, a revised importance-performance analysis model was proposed to identify the SAs that should be improved. To validate the model, the dedicated container terminal of Evergreen Marine Corp. (EMC DCT) at Kaohsiung Port and its users were empirically investigated. With respect to the empirical results, managerial implications of the findings in improving service quality for the EMC DCT are discussed.     

超缓凝砂浆在船闸大体积混凝土中的应用

大体积混凝土的约束裂缝是由于混凝土早期强度较低,约束应力超过了混凝土的抗拉能力造成的。文章结合长沙湘江船闸大体积混凝土的施工,介绍超缓凝砂浆的性能,由于其突出的缓凝性,可有效防止层间早期约束,达到减小外在约束应力的目的。长沙船闸工程在采用了大体积混凝土配合比的同时,应用了层间超缓凝砂浆,有效降低了大体积混凝土约束裂缝的产生,取得了较好的效果。     

大型船舶锚系多接触碰撞动力学分析研究

采用虚拟样机技术,利用多接触碰撞仿真分析方法代替传统木模试验对锚系运动设计进行验证。通过对拉锚速度进行多水平仿真实验,并对试验结果进行分析计算,得出了不同拉锚速度对锚系运动稳定性的影响关系,可作为大型船舶锚系设计的一个重要参考因素,值得在船舶行业推广。