19 articles in this issue
Ilkyeong Moon
The first International Conference on Logistics and Maritime Systems (LOGMS) was held in Busan, Korea, from September 15 to 17, 2010. The conference was launched by integrating the International Conference on Intelligent Logistics System (IILS) and the In... see more
Yin Long,Loo Hay Lee,Ek Peng CHEW,Yi LUO,Jijun SHAO,Arpan SENGUTA,Selina M L Chua
One of the challenges that liner operators face today is to effectively operate empty containers in order to meet demands and to reduce inefficiency. The objective of this study is to apply optimization techniques to solve the practical empty container re... see more
Dong-Won Jang,Kap Hwan Kim
Pyramid stacking is a type of block stacking method for cylindrical unit loads such as drums, coils, paper rolls, and so on. This study addresses how to determine the dimension (height and width) of a bay. It is assumed that multiple types of unit loads, ... see more
Marco Lewandowski,Bernd Scholz-Reiter
Ongoing improvement of logistics and intermodal transport leads to high requirements regarding availability of machine resources like straddle carriers or gantry cranes. Accordingly, efficient maintenance strategies for port equipment have to be establish... see more
Wen Fei Wang,Won Young Yun,Byung Hyun Ha
Inland container transportation refers to container movements among customer’s locations, container terminals, and depots in a local area. In this paper, containers are defined as four types according to the destination (inbound vs. outbound containers) a... see more
Gyu-Sung Cho,Ho-Gyun Kim
Refrigerated warehouses play a buffer function in a logistics system to meet the various demands of consumers. Over 50% of Korean refrigerated warehouses are located in Busan, and Busan has become a strategic region for cold chain industries. This paper s... see more
Byung Soo Kim,Woon-Seek Lee
This paper considers a dynamic inbound ordering and shipment scheduling problem for multiple products that are transported from a supplier to a warehouse by common freight containers. The following assumptions are made: (i) ordered products in a period ar... see more
Bernardo Nugroho Yahya,Hyerim Bae,Joonsoo Bae
The increased individuation and variety of logistics processes have spurred a strong demand for a new process customization strategy. In order to satisfy the increasingly specific requirements and demands of customers, organizations have been developing m... see more
Hae Kyung Lee,Chang Seong Ko,Taioun Kim
To remain competitive in business and to be quick responsive in the warehouse and supply chain, the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) has been increasing in many industry areas. RFID can identify multiple objects simultaneously as well as ident... see more
Hyunjeung Ko
The market competition of package deliveries in Korea is severe because a large number of companies have entered into the Koran market. A package delivery company in Korea generally owns and operates a number of service centers and consolidation terminals... see more
Sang-Hei Choi,Seung Hwan Won,Chulung Lee
Container terminals around the world fiercely compete to increase their throughput and to accommodate new mega vessels. In order to increase the port throughput drastically, new quay cranes capable of batch processing are being introduced. The tandem-lift... see more
Kyoung C Kim,Ji U Sun,Shi W Lee
To survive in today’s competitive market, material handling activities need to be planned carefully to satisfy business’ and customers' demand. The vehicle routing and scheduling problems have been studied extensively for various industries with special n... see more
Vanina Macowski Durski Silva,Antonio G Novaes,Bernd Scholz-Reiter,Jakub Piotrowski
Along export chains transportation has an important cost impacting directly on the efficiency of the whole chain. Experiments show satisfactory results in terms of reduced delivery time, increased productivity of transportation resources as well as econom... see more
Paul Childerhouse
The concept of supply chain management has evolved from focussing initially on functional co-ordination within an organisation, then to external dyadic integration with suppliers and customers and more recently towards a holistic network perspective. &nbs... see more
Chulung Lee
This paper studies the price and guaranteed lead time decision of a supplier that offers a fixed guaranteed lead time for a product. If the supplier is not able to meet the guaranteed lead time, the supplier must pay a lateness penalty to customers. Thus,... see more
Kiyeok Park,Taejin Park,Kwang Ryel Ryu
Remarshaling in a container terminal refers to the task of rearranging containers stored in the stacking yard to improve the efficiency of subsequent loading onto a vessel. When the time allowed for such preparatory work is limited, only a selected subset... see more
Dong Won Cho,Young Hae Lee
Abstract In this study, we quantify the bullwhip effect in a seasonal two echelon supply chain with stochastic lead time. The bullwhip effect is the phenomenon of demand variability amplification when one moves away from the customer to the supplier in a ... see more
Inkyung Sung,Hochang Nam,Taesik Lee
Mobile Harbor is a ship, or a movable floating structure with container loading/unloading equipment on board, so that it can work with a container ship anchored in sea. In some sense, a Mobile Harbor is equivalent to a berth with a quay crane of a convent... see more
Joachim R. Daduna
Abstract: The constantly increasing quantitative and qualitative requirements for the terrestrial container and Ro/Ro transport can not only be dealt with in road and rail freight transport and from transportation on inland waterways in the upcoming years... see more