博士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 河海工程學系 / 100 / The selection ports by carriers generally have a two stage decision making process: first they select the port for a given shipment, then they select a terminal operator at the chosen port. This process involves consideration of a multiplicity of factors, including port performance across a range of indicators. In this paper, we suggest that ports are selected not necessarily on the basis of being the best in any set of indicators; rather they must have acceptable levels of performance on all indicators. These acceptable limits form a threshold in port selection, not a single decisive criterion. For example, carriers may select any port which offers dwelling time within acceptable limits.
Past literature has mostly discussed port selection. However, within a given region, any port which meets a carrier's threshold conditions is eligible for consideration, and a terminal operator at any of these ports is a candidate for entering into a contract with the carrier. The choice is not restricted to terminal operators at a single given port. Thus the choice of terminal operator is an important step in the decision-making process. Selection of terminal operator has rarely been addressed in the literature, but this paper examines a situation in which all ports in a country or region meet the minimum criteria set by carriers, and how carriers then select terminal operators.
This paper formulates the terminal operator selection problem using the MIP model and applies the PSO algorithm to solve the optimal solution. The mathematical model incorporates inland shipping costs and cargo losses into total costs in the objective function. Loading / unloading efficiency and pre-entry waiting time are included in the constraints to determine whether the operator meets the threshold minimum standards. Through the designed model of this paper, the best partnership for container carriers could be identified in the allocation of full, empty and transshipment containers in terminal operations. The simulated results also exposes that the container carrier should select one for transshipment base and another for import/export base among the homogenous terminal operators in the area.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NTOU5192002 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Lin, Li-Mei, 林麗美 |
| Contributors | Shiau, Tzay-An, 蕭再安 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 114 |
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