Global Logistics Network Modelling and Policy

Quantification and Analysis for International Freight

Ryuichi Shibasaki, Hironori Kato, Cesar Ducruet

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780128140604
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128140611
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Global Logistics Network Modelling and Policy provides guidelines on quality policy, covering investments, management and planning for port and hinterland infrastructure, roads, railways and inland waterway ports. The book first describes the authors' concept and formulation models, followed by a description and analysis of the applied data. As shipping companies fiercely compete in an effort to achieve greater efficiency and impact infrastructure policy and plan for the entire supply chain, they need tactics that drive quality transportation policy and new ways to model and simulate worldwide cargo movements, all while estimating demand and capacity of systems. This book provides quantitative tools for modeling, analysis, and simulation of worldwide, inter-modal cargo movement – helping forecast the impacts of logistics and related policies in each region of the world. It covers useful applications for every region of the world, allowing policymakers to tailor results for their own specific uses. - Delivers sophisticated quantitative tools for modeling simulations, providing powerful analysis of global intermodal cargo movements - Features examples of tools applied to logistical policy situations in every region of the world - Serves as a bridge between theory and practice in the field of freight transportation research - Provides detailed, data-supported case studies and real-world examples for transportation modelers, planners and policymakers

Part One

General introduction

1: Introduction to global container shipping market

César Ducruet^a; Hidekazu Itoh^{b a} Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
^b Kwansei Gakuin University

Abstract

This chapter recalls and demonstrates deep changes in the way maritime transport had been reorganised with the ongoing advent of containerisation in the past decades up to the present time. This multifaceted approach to containerisation is not so common as often, specific aspects are well covered and analysed by scholars and professionals but without offering an all-encompassing view. A review of the complex and changing relationships between containerisation (technological change) and economic development, port and shipping line operations, and related impacts on former ways of doing things is necessary before widening the approach to other segments of the global value and supply chain, such as hinterlands and shipping networks, as described in the other chapters.

Keywords

Containerisation; Liner shipping; Ports

Introduction: Containerisation and global logistics

In 26 April 1956, an American land transporter named Malcom McLean started competing with freight railway companies on interstate long distance transport in the United States. He first navigated a hopped-up container ship from Newark, New Jersey, to Houston, Texas, along the US East Coast by his shipping company (later named Sea-Land). Maritime containers were acquired for two main purposes: (1) to reduce port handling costs by the unitisation (container ‘box’) of cargo and (2) to reduce truck transport cost on long-distance delivery. Indeed, the container ships are permitted to deliver cargo through intermodal transport on land and sea (Levinson, 2006).

The strongest advantage of containerisation is that cargo handling on the docks could be managed in a more efficient way. At this time, a container was mounted on a wagon for land transport, or current roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) shipping. However, because the system was initially inefficient due to the weight and space of wagons, container ships used cranes to handle the box between the ship and the yard. Finally, the Sea-Land company launched a modern full-container ship without crane onboard in 1966 to cross the Atlantic, as European ports such as Antwerp became able to handle containers in the late 1960s (Morel and Ducruet, 2015). After certain technological progress, gantry cranes were placed on berths to carry containers between the ship and the terminal, whilst chassis and trailer moved containers inside the...

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Preface_ Globalisation and global logistics
• Part One: General introduction
• Part Two: Model & Data
• Part Three: Application to the developing world
• Conclusion
• Author Index
• Subject Index