A multi-criteria decision making model to locate the hub ports (case study: the maritime industry of Iran) by Amir Zabihi, Mohsen Gharehkhani

“…The main focus of this article is on selecting and ranking the ports that suitable to be concidered as a hub for container ports. A shipping carrier not only calculates transport distances and operation costs, but also evaluates some qualitative conditions for existing hub locations and then selects an optimal container transshipment hub location in the region. …”
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Measuring the impact of port congestion on containership freight rates by Nektarios A. Michail, Konstantinos D. Melas

“…The most important region is Asia, where a 1 % increase in port congestion has a >1 % effect on shipping freight rates. This suggests that the region, being the world's largest manufacturing area and an integral part of the supply chain, has much more importance than previously considered. …”
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Incompatible Aedes aegypti male releases as an intervention to reduce mosquito population-A field trial in Puerto Rico. by Liliana Sánchez-González, Jacob E Crawford, Laura E Adams, Grayson Brown, Kyle R Ryff, Mark Delorey, Jose Ruiz-Valcarcel, Nicole Nazario, Nexilianne Borrero, Julieanne Miranda, Sara N Mitchell, Paul I Howell, Johanna R Ohm, Charlie Behling, Brian Wasson, Craig Eldershaw, Bradley J White, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Roberto Barrera, Gabriela Paz-Bailey

“…With improvement of shipping vessels and shipped male fitness, packing and shipping male mosquitoes could provide a key solution for expanding access to this technology. …”
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INVESTIGATING THE COST EFFECTIVENESS OF BIODIESEL DISTRIBUTION IN INDONESIA by Herbert Wibert Victor Hasudungan, Elis Heviati, Sulthon Sjahril Sabaruddin, Sigit Hargiyanto

“…This paper aims to both evaluate and formulate the Indonesian biodiesel transportation costs in all routes using either trucking or shipping mode. Based on primary data and information obtained from experts, we found that the most dominant factors that affect the shipping distribution cost are the size of the ship and its activities (such as voyage, ballast, loading, discharge, waiting, and buffer), whilst for the trucking mode, the dominant factors are both its corresponding operational costs and investment costs. …”
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Container Freight Rates and International Trade Causality Nexus: Evidence from Panel VAR Approach for Shanghai and ASEAN-6 Countries by Xingong Ding, Mengzhen Wang

“…Container shipping drives the development of international trade, yet previous studies have not fully appreciated the possible bidirectional causal relationship between container freight rates and international trade. …”
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Agent-based modeling for data-driven enforcement: combining empirical data with behavioral theory for scenario-based analysis of inspections by Eunice Koid, Haiko van der Voort, Martijn Warnier

“…The broader generalizability of the proposed approach beyond the inland shipping context requires further research.…”
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Sailing Speed Optimization Model for Slow Steaming Considering Loss Aversion Mechanism by Yuzhe Zhao, Jingmiao Zhou, Yujun Fan, Haibo Kuang

“…This paper analyses loss aversion mechanism (LAM) of the shipping company’s decision-makers about the risk-based decision (RBD) for slow steaming and generalizes a novel optimization model for the sailing speed through the trade-off between fuel consumption, SOx emissions and delivery delay. …”
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Permeability Properties of Crushed Stone Aggregates in Bedding Course of Urban Permeable Roads: An Experimental Study by Rongrong Mao, Haiyan Yang

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Lightweight Multi-Scale Network for Segmentation of Riverbank Sand Mining Area in Satellite Images by Hongyang Zhang, Shuo Liu, Huamei Liu

“…Riverbank sand overexploitation is threatening the ecology and shipping safety of rivers. The rapid identification of riverbank sand mining areas from satellite images is extremely important for ecological protection and shipping management. …”
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INVESTIGATING THE COST EFFECTIVENESS OF BIODIESEL DISTRIBUTION IN INDONESIA by Herbert Wibert Victor Hasudungan, Elis Heviati, Sulthon Sjahril Sabaruddin, Sigit Hargiyanto

“…This paper aims to both evaluate and formulate the Indonesian biodiesel transportation costs in all routes using either trucking or shipping mode. Based on primary data and information obtained from experts, we found that the most dominant factors that affect the shipping distribution cost are the size of the ship and its activities (such as voyage, ballast, loading, discharge, waiting, and buffer), whilst for the trucking mode, the dominant factors are both its corresponding operational costs and investment costs. …”
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Research on Bearing Capacity Characteristics of Cave Piles by Lixin Ou, Yufeng Huang, Xu Chen, Yang Xue, Qingfu Li, Biao Guo

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Management practices in maritime affairs: insights from STIP Jakarta graduates by Larsen Barasa, Marudut Bernadtua Simanjuntak

“…Through purposive sampling, 70 officers, including deck and engine officers and shipping professionals, were selected for in-depth interviews. …”
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Joint Optimization of Berths and Quay Cranes Considering Carbon Emissions: A Case Study of a Container Terminal in China by Houjun Lu, Xiao Lu

“…Additionally, the energy consumption and carbon emissions from the port shipping industry contribute significantly to environmental challenges and the sustainable development of ports. …”
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The history of the government regulation of inLAND waterways before revolution in Russia by T. Gaynochenko, E. Kurbatova

“…Special attention is paid to the growth of inland shipping, port facilities and to construction projects of river ports. …”
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RETRACTED: Modeling of light transmission in multilayer epitaxial AlN/GaN structures for biomedical pyrosensors by Panyutin Eugeny, Ilicheva Tatiana

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Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning Image Classification Modules in the MUN-ABSAI Ice Risk Management Architecture by Ravindu G. Thalagala, Oscar De Silva, Dan Oldford, David Molyneux

“…The retreat of Arctic sea ice has opened new maritime routes, offering faster shipping opportunities; however, these routes present significant navigational challenges due to the harsh ice conditions. …”
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Optimization of maritime emergency base placement for inland waterway accident response: a case study of the Yangtze River by Quandang Ma, Jiaquan Pan, Yang Zhou, Shaorui Zhou, Mingyang Zhang

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Integration of soft skills into the program of maritime English by V. Kudriavtseva, S. Barsuk, O. Frolova

“…The shipping industry is regulated by international laws with the stakeholders significantly influencing the standards of international transport systems and, therefore, demands highly qualified specialists. …”
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A Hybrid LSTM-Based Ensemble Learning Approach for China Coastal Bulk Coal Freight Index Prediction by Wei Xiao, Chuan Xu, Hongling Liu, Xiaobo Liu

“…Though trend analysis on freight rate has been extensively conducted, the property of the shipping market, i.e., it varies over time and is not stable, causes CBCFI to be hard to be accurately predicted. …”
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Rough Set Neural Network Feature Extraction and Pattern Recognition of Shaft Orbits Based on the Zernike Moment by Xinfeng Ge, Jing Zhang, Ye Zhou, Jianguo Cai, Hui Zhang, Hongchang Hua, Dong Chen, Ming Zhao, Jinqi Du, Yuan Zheng

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