Dongping Song: Container Logistics and Maritime Transport: Routledge,New York,2021.pp.400,ISBN: 9780429320996

摘要

Container logistics chains connect the global economies and act as a catalyst for international trade. The chain is a highly complex system and requires sophisticated analytical tools to achieve an efficient and effective logistics service. In the related literature, most books address this industry from the perspective of management, strategy, or policy-making, and there seems to be a lack of monographs dealing with analytical methods and tools for optimising the container logistics operations. Existing operation studies are typically geared towards individual and/or specific issues that are published largely as journal articles. It is thus a challenge to consolidate those scattered studies into a comprehensive and coherent monograph, due to the wide disciplinary span of their solution methods. In that sense, this book fills in the gap of the domain. It presents state-of-art optimization models and methods capable of dealing with the strategic, tactical, and operational planning problems associated with almost all the main segments of container logistics.