Dry ports: research outcomes, trends, and future implications

A Khaslavskaya, V Roso - Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2020 - Springer
The concept of dry ports has gained significant interest among practitioners and researchers
in the last decade. Consequently, publications on this topic have followed this development …

Dry Port: A Review on Concept, Classification, Functionalities and Technological Processes

E Varese, DS Marigo, M Lombardi - Logistics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this article is to offer a literature review on the development and classification
of inland terminals, later defined as “dry ports”. The aim of the paper is to analyze the extant …

A multi-objective mixed robust possibilistic flexible programming approach for sustainable seaport-dry port network design under an uncertain environment

YC Tsao, VV Thanh - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper develops a multi-objective mixed robust possibilistic flexible programming
(MOMRPFP) approach for the sustainable dry port network design under uncertain …

Import-export freight organization and optimization in the dry-port-based cross-border logistics network under the Belt and Road Initiative

H Wei, M Dong - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The weakness and lack of import and export logistics functions in inland regions creates a
bottleneck that restricts the development of foreign economies and trade. Under the Belt and …

Seaport-dry port network design considering multimodal transport and carbon emissions

YC Tsao, VT Linh - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Dry port can speed the flow of cargo between ships and major land transportation networks
while reducing carbon emissions and relieving seaport congestion. This study introduces a …

Strategic responses to institutional forces pressuring sustainability practice adoption: Case-based evidence from inland port operations

M Vejvar, K Lai, CKY Lo, EWM Fürst - Transportation Research Part D …, 2018 - Elsevier
This article investigates strategic responses of inland ports to institutional forces pressuring
their adoption of sustainability practices. We postulate that even though inland port …

A flexible cost model for seaport-hinterland decisions in container shipping

T de Almeida Rodrigues, CM de Miranda Mota… - Research in …, 2023 - Elsevier
A seaport–hinterland system offers a wide range of service options for shippers and
consignees to export or import containerized cargo. The present study, set within the context …

Quantity discount pricing for rail transport in a dry port system

X Qiu, CY Lee - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A dry port is an inland intermodal terminal connected to a seaport via railways. This paper
studies a rail transportation pricing problem with quantity discounts in a dry port system …

Hinterland transport chains: Determinant effects on chain choice

WK Talley, MW Ng - International Journal of Production Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
A hinterland is the landward side of a seaport, whereas a seaport (dry port) is the sea node
(inland node) of a hinterland transport chain, ie the hinterland transport network over which …

Determining dry port criteria that support decision making

T de Almeida Rodrigues, CM de Miranda Mota… - Research in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In spite of the increase in the last 10 years, especially in countries with large container
handling in Asia and Europe, research on dry ports is still in its initial phase, focusing on the …