A measurement and Comparison of Cost Competitiveness of Container Ports in Southeast Asia

Terminal users face a variety of costs associated with the container terminal and those that are harder to quantify should not be ignored for they might represent a larger component of the overall costs associated with using a particular terminal. Similarly, the competitive advantage of a container terminal operator goes beyond the elements that can be quantified. The paper uses and modifies Cournot’s simultaneous quantity-setting model as a means to derive the overall costs of using the terminal. The application of this model to the perspective of competition between container terminal operators in Singapore, Port Klang and Tanjung Pelepas finds that the increasingly cost competitive operators in Port Klang and Tanjung Pelepas were able to close the gap with PSA Corporation in Singapore in the overall costs of using their terminal facilities between 1998 and 2002 although PSAC continued to enjoy a dominant share of the container-handling market in the region. The paper also highlights the tremendous amount of opportunities available to these terminal operators to advance and capitalise on their competitive advantages beyond aggressive price competition.The author would like to stress that the views presented do not represent those of his organization.     

模块化救生装置的研制

根据集装箱船加改装成医院船工作中的需要,为满足船上人员海上遇险救生需要,研制了模块化的救生装置。针对模块化医院船的特点,提出担架伤员撤离主要通过救生艇,并对救生艇模块的设计进行了详细的说明,还介绍了海上撤离系统和气胀式救生筏。通过海上试验,证明该套救生装置可顺利地在集装箱船上安装和使用,可有效满足医院船的人员海上遇险救生需要。     

EH47高强度厚钢板角焊缝裂纹修补工艺研究

随着造船业飞速发展,大量高厚度、高强度、高韧性的钢板被应用于大型集装箱船的上甲板区域。EH47是工业革新的最新成果,它的屈服强度高,被使用于万箱级集装箱船的上甲板区域。某船厂10000 TEU船舱口围钢板与舾装件角焊缝发生开裂,通过有限元计算出裂纹发生的可能性,并分析了开裂发生的原因,针对结构特点和材料特点,采用CO2气体保护焊焊补,通过选用合理的焊丝、预热温度、焊后保温等措施来防止裂纹的产生。     

VLCC船LNG燃料储罐的设计

针对中东至国内典型航线的VLCC船舶进行了LNG动力船储罐的选型与设计,给出了LNG的加注时机方案、基于降速下的燃料消耗的计算方法、储罐的选型与选材及结构设计计算和强度计算等。并对船用LNG储罐的强度进行严谨的计算,其结果在允许的要求范围内。因此,研究不仅对超大型LNG动力船储罐的选型和设计有很好的指导意义,而且为未来开展LNG动力船的研究打下良好的基础。     

An empirical study of the impacts of operating and market conditions on container-port efficiency and benchmarking

Despite the growing amount of research on container-port efficiency and benchmarking, the literature on the subject is yet to provide stable and consistent results across researchers and in relation to dynamic operating and market conditions. In this paper, we formulate a number of operational hypotheses to test the sensitivity of benchmarking results to port market and operating conditions namely production scale, cargo mix, transhipment ratio, operating configurations, and working procedures. A series of data envelopment analysis (DEA) models are used to measure the operational efficiency of 420 container terminal decision-making units from 2004 till 2010. The results show that variations in operating conditions highly impact terminal efficiency and that future work on container-port performance and benchmarking should take into account the structure and mechanisms underpinning the operations of container ports and terminals.     

长江干线集装箱吞吐量分析预测

港口集装箱吞吐量是进行港口规划和加强港口建设的依据,预测长江干线主要港口企业集装箱吞吐量对促进长江干线水域经济发展发挥了重要作用。以长江干线主要港口企业集装箱吞吐量为基础,分析二次指数平滑法、灰色模型预测法和BP-GA算法的原理,分别建立三种相应的预测模型并比较预测结果及精度。结果表明BP-GA模型能更加准确预测集装箱吞吐量在时间序列上的变化趋势,预测拟合度最佳。最后以该模型预测分析2021年1月至12月的长江干线主要港口企业集装箱吞吐量,为未来长江航运发展提供参考。     

超大型油船压载水舱分舱的优化研究

通过对国际船级社协会（IACS）URS11规范和其最新建议案的研究,结合已有VLCC船压载水舱分舱布置型式的分析,提出一种符合URS11最新要求的VLCC压载水舱分舱的优化方案,以达到降低船体设计最大中拱静水弯矩的目的。     

2750TEU集装箱船局部振动评估

针对2 750 TEU集装箱船,在船体总振动评估的基础上,采用经验公式及有限元法,对液舱及上层建筑的局部振动进行详细评估,并根据不同区域的计算结果采取相应的改进措施.     

Cargo ship aft panel stresses prediction by deconvolution

This article introduces novel extreme value prediction method that can be used for a variety of offshore engineering applications. First, to demonstrate the novel method, fictitious data from a non-linear Duffing oscillator and measured wave heights were used as examples. The second incident included a container ship that experienced significant deck panel strains while traveling across the Atlantic Ocean in bad weather. The main concern for cargo ship transportation is potential loss of container owing to violent movements. It is challenging to model such a situation because waves and ship motions are both non-stationary and complicatedly nonlinear. Extreme motions greatly increase the role of nonlinearities, activating effects of second and higher order.Furthermore, due to the scaling and the choice of sea state, laboratory testing may also be called into doubt. Therefore, data collected from actual ships during difficult weather voyages offers a special perspective on the statistics of ship motions.This paper aims to highlight an alternative method of extrapolation that is based on intrinsic properties of the data set itself and does not assume any extrapolation functional class. Extreme value predictions typically originate from certain statistical distribution functional classes to fit the data and then extrapolate. Engineering design can make use of the unique extrapolation method that has been proposed. The proposed method's forecast accuracy has been verified in comparison to the Averaged Conditional Exceedance Rate (ACER) extrapolation method.