Combinable containers

A container innovation to save container fleet and empty container repositioning costs

Journal article (2019)

Authors

K. Shintani Tokai University
J.W. Konings Architecture OTB
Akio Imai Kobe University
Research Group
Architecture OTB
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

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Research Group

Architecture OTB

Abstract

Combinable containers can either be used as a standard 20 ft or in combined state as a 40 ft container by altering the dimensional to match the cargo size. This paper examines the viability of combinable containers for saving the container related costs. We present a model of a minimum cost multi-commodity network flow problem that can be used to simultaneously determine the fleet sizes of standard and combinable containers and their empty container allocation/repositioning. Based on numerical experiments, we discovered that mixed use of both types of containers can save a significant portion of container related cost.

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