The thesis is focused on container shipping from the Czech Republic to China. The volume of import from China to the Czech republic is ten times higher than the export to China, which is reflected in the number of containers shipped on this route. The thesis shows the impact of the trade imbalance on the freight rate and on the level of surcharges. Subsequently, the thesis describes the procedures an exporter has to go through when arranging a shipment. The practical part shows a case of an export operation of fresh rabbit skins to China.

The diploma thesis characterizes intermodal transport and individual systems which it uses. It also desribes the current development of transport and its individual sectors. The diploma thesis also outlines the issue of external economic relations and foreign trade between China and the Czech republic. I picked up and characterized the representatives of shipping carriers and intermodal carriers. In the last part of the thesis I described the specific case of import of three containers from a Chinese shipper to a Czech consignee.

This diploma thesis focuses on documents used in maritime transport, includes insurance problems, contracts, INCOTERMS and transportation of containers. In practical part I firstly theoretically described the process starting with customers demand ending with actual delivery of goods. After theoretical description I applied this process to real cases.

Virtualization is used extensively by Enterprise IT architecture and cloud computing, it is used to provide customers a part of their hardware resources as a service. Container technology is the new generation of virtualization and provides performance benefits due to less overhead. Earlier research has compared different container technologies regarding their performance, including Docker which is the most popular container technology. Most of this research has been focusing on Linux based container technologies. Even though there is interest in knowing how other container technologies under different operating systems perform. In this study we explore the performance of Docker in contrast to the performance of a contending container technology named Jails. We present how well each container technology performs running one or multiple containers, in the areas of CPU, memory, read from disk, write to disk, network and startup time efficiency. The comparison was done using collected statistics from different benchmarking tools. Results from this study have shown that Docker is utilizing shared resources and has better stability compared to Jails. We also discuss what unexplored benefits Docker and Jails can have by implementing each other’s unique features. Future work could consist of writing to disk or reading from disk performance tests under one common filesystem, e.g., ZFS file system. / Virtualisering används i stor utsträckning av Enterprise IT-arkitektur och molntjänster, den används för att kunna erbjuda sina kunder en del av sina hårdvaruresurser som en tjänst. Containerteknologi är den nya generationen virtualisering och ger prestandafördelar på grund av mindre omkostnader. Tidigare forskning har jämfört olika containerteknologier angående deras prestanda, inklusive Docker, som är den mest populära containertekniken. Merparten av tidigare forskning har fokuserat på Linuxbaserade containerteknologier, även om det finns intresse för att veta hur andra containerteknologier under olika operativsystem fungerar. I denna studie undersöker vi Dockers prestanda jämfört med prestandan till containerteknologin med namnet Jails. Vi presenterar hur bra varje containerteknologi fungerar med att köra en eller flera containrar inom områdena CPU, minne, läsa från disk, skriva till disk, nätverkshastighet och starttid. Jämförelsen gjordes med insamlad statistik från olika referensverktyg. Resultat från denna studie har visat att Docker använder delade resurser på ett effektivare sätt och har bättre stabilitet jämfört med Jails. Vi diskuterar också vilka outforskade fördelar Docker och Jails kan ha genom att implementera varandras unika funktioner. Framtida arbete kan bestå av att skriva till disk eller läsa från diskprestanda under ett gemensamt filsystem, t.ex. ZFS-filsystem.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are physical entities whose operations are monitored, coordinated, and controlled by a computing and communication core. These systems are highly heterogeneous and complex. Their numerous components and cross domain complexity make attacks easy to propagate and security difficult to implement. Consequently, to secure these systems, they need to be built in a systematic and holistic way, where security is an integral part of the development lifecycle and not just an activity after development. These systems present a multitude of implementation details in their component units, so it is fundamental to use abstraction in the analysis and construction of their architecture. In particular, we can apply abstraction through the use of patterns. Pattern-based architectural modeling is a powerful way to describe the system and analyze its security and the other non-functional aspects. Patterns also have the potential to unify the design of their computational, communication, and control aspects. Architectural modeling can be performed through UML diagrams to show the interactions and dependencies between different components and its stakeholders. Also, it can be used to analyze security threats and describe the possible countermeasures to mitigate these threats. An important type of CPS is a maritime container terminal, a facility where cargo containers are transported between ships and land vehicles; for example, trains or trucks, for onward transportation, and vice versa. Every cargo port performs four basic functions: receiving, storing, staging and loading for both, import and export containers. We present here a set of patterns that describe the elements and functions of a cargo port system, and a Reference Architecture (RA) built using these patterns. We analyze and systematically enumerate the possible security threats to a container terminal in a cargo port using activity diagrams derived from selected use cases of the system. We describe these threats using misuse patterns, and from them select security patterns as defenses. The RA provides a framework to determine where to add these security mechanisms to stop or mitigate these threats and build a Security Reference Architecture (SRA) for CPS. An SRA is an abstract architecture describing a conceptual model of security that provides a way to specify security requirements for a wide range of concrete architectures. The analysis and design are given using a cargo port as our example, but the approach can be used in other domains as well. This is the first work we know where patterns and RAs are used to represent cargo ports and analyze their security. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (PhD)--Florida Atlantic University, 2021. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This diploma thesis deal with double problematic both engine bed of Jabiru 3000 engine and by overhead container. In both cases the engineering design is solved with compliance of ASTM F2245-04 LSA rules. The structures are shaped by Catia V5R17 software. For calculation of acting forces of bar model of the engine bed Finite Element Method software Patran was used. Strength verification of both engine bed and container was done analytically.

Subject of this masters thesis is the constructional project of the wooden lamelas manipulator. Thesis comprises design of the two possible solution for two main parts of the device, calculational part and constructional solution of the components. Part of the thesis is design documentation and the model of the manipulator.

This thesis project took "community dining room" as the theme. Based on the research of different types of public eating places, I came up with a new type of community restaurant system that meets the needs of modern development. Multiple choice and affordable price are the most important feature of this new container construction system. The general background of my thesis topic based on issues of community service, interaction between the public, buildings and community. Moreover, I found two typical methods of showing community relationships, the kitchenless home and hawker centre, which became the supporting materials of my thesis general thoughts. And then, the research section is the most important part of the entire thesis process. In research part, I analyzed and sorted out different types of "public dining areas", summarized their commonalities, and drew several different types of prototypes. Finally, the design of project is based on the summary of the research section. Thesis project was designed based on the prototypes, following the micro-meso-macro scope design step.

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / In the management of port terminals, a common problem has been evidenced, high traffic of trucks and long waiting times given the variability of trucks arrival. This is a significant challenge for ports. This situation has given the opportunity to investigate in this matter and make use of a Truck Appointment System (TAS) together with other tools corresponding to industrial engineering for the optimization of truck service processes within a port terminal in Peru. To do this, a diagnosis is made of the company object of study and through a simulation of discrete systems, the technical viability of the proposal is validated. It was demonstrated that a procedure of attention based on appointments, Last in, First Out (LIFO) management for containers and development of visual management within the container yard; it is a highly viable option to shorten waiting times and unproductive movements of containers.

Historically virtual machines have been the backbone of the cloud-industry, allowing cloud-providers to offer virtualized multi-tenant solutions. A key aspect of the cloud is its flexibility and abstraction of the underlying hardware. Virtual machines can enhance this aspect by enabling support for live migration and failover. Live migration is the process of moving a running virtual machine from one host to another and failover ensures that a failed virtual machine will automatically be restarted (possibly on another host). Today, as containers continue to increase in popularity and make up a larger portion of the cloud, often replacing virtual machines, it becomes increasingly important for these processes to be available to containers as well. However, little support for container live migration and failover exists and remains largely experimental. Furthermore, no solution seems to exists that offers both live migration and failover for containers in a unified solution. The thesis presents a proof-of-concept implementation and description of a system that enables support for both live migration and failover for containers by extending current container migration techniques. It is able to offer this to any OCI-compliant container, and could therefore potentially be integrated into current container and container orchestration frameworks. In addition, measurements for the proof-of-concept implementation are provided and used to compare the proof-of-concept implementation to a current container migration technique. Furthermore, the thesis presents an overview of the history and implementation of containers, current migration techniques, and metrics that can be used for measuring different migration techniques are introduced. The paper concludes that current container migration techniques can be extended in order to support both live migration and failover, and that in doing so one might expect to achieve a downtime equal to, and total migration time lower than that of pre-copy migration. Supporting both live migration and failover, however, comes at a cost of an increased amount of data needed to be transferred between the hosts.