Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics

Part I: Container Terminal Operation: Innovation, Trend, Competition and Business.- Model.- Innovative Container Terminals to Improve Global Container Transport Chains.- Container Terminal Operation: Current Trends and Future Challenges.- Container port competition in Europe.- Container Port Competition and Competitiveness Analysis: Asian Major Ports.- Choosing a Business Model of Container Terminal Operations.- Part II: Shipping Liners: Tactical and Operational Management.- Empty Container Repositioning.- Robust Optimization Approach to Empty Container Repositioning in Liner Shipping.- Disruption Management for Liner Shipping.- Bunker Purchasing in Liner Shipping.- Ship Route Schedule based Interactions between Container Shipping Lines and Port Operators.- Slow Steaming in Maritime Transportation: Fundamentals, Trade-offers and Decision models.- Efficient Global Container Chain port Network Design.- Part III:  Shippers and Global Supply Chain Management.- Purchasing Transportation Services from Ocean Carriers.- Ocean transport and the facilitation of trade.- Modelling Global Container Freight Transport Demand.- Competition and Co-operation in Maritime Logistics Operations.- Hinterland transportation in container supply chains.- Green corridors and their possible impact on the European supply chain.

Dr. Chung-Yee Lee is the Founding and Current Director of Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. He served as Department Head for seven years (2001- 2008). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in U.S. and also a Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science. Before joining HKUST in 2001, he was Rockwell Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University. He worked as a plant manager and also had few years consulting experience in Taiwan. In the past 22 years he has engaged in numerous research projects sponsored by NSF, RGC, ITF, IBM, Motorola, AT&T Paradyne, Harris Semiconductor, Northern Telecom, Martin Marietta, Hactl, and Philips Medical.

His search areas are in logistics and supply chain management, scheduling and inventory management. He has engaged in numerous research projects sponsored by industries in U.S. and Hong Kong. He has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals. According to an article in Int. J. Prod. Eco. (2009), which looked at all papers published in the 20 core journals during last 50 years in the field of production and operations management, he was ranked No. 6 among all researchers worldwide in h-index.

He received a BS degree in Electronic Engineering (1972) and a MS degree in Management Sciences (1976) both from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan. He also received a MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University (1980) and PhD degree in Operations Research from Yale University (1984).

Dr. Qiang Meng is an Associate Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. He was as an Assistant Professor in the department from September 2003 to July 2010. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow in the department. Dr. Meng received his Bachelor of Science from East China Normal University in 1984