Strategies towards effective emission reduction of the inland shipping industry in the port of Rotterdam: Using a mixed-integer linear programming model

Currently, the inland shipping industry is not sufficiently incentivised to invest in sustainable technologies in order to reduce their emissions. The industry itself wants to be more sustainable, but there is insufficient financial room to invest in alternative technologies. Besides, public authorities try to achieve a reduction using command...

Estimating arrival times of inland ships

This research focused on improving a current traveltime estimation system called<br/>the Trajectplanner. This system simulates the movements of inland ships on a<br/>network model of the Dutch inland waterways in order to calculate and to<br/>estimate the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for every ship that sails the inland<br/>waterways ...

Inland Shipping & Container Handling: Feasibility study on scalable inland container transport and terminal concepts

Small scale inland shipping, especially in the case of transported containers, is used only marginally compared to its capacity. The small inland waterways have abundant capacity to accommodate up to 700 percent more transport. On the other hand, road based container transport is cause for external damages in the form of congestion, emissions...

Inventory Optimization for Mercurius Shipping Group's Container-Crane Vessels

Mercurius Shipping Group invested in two container-crane vessels which are able to load and unload cargo to and from its holds. Due to their unique feature, the crane, failure of the vessels results in large financial consequences. Previous experience showed that these costs could be mitigated with easily/timely available spare-parts. The main...