Erasmus Smart Port Rotterdam

ESE – Dekker

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ESE Dekker – projects 2010
• Container stacking research (ongoing)

• Chassis Exchange Terminal investigation

• Establishing best management practice in Lifetime Extension

projects (with a.o. Mainnovation & PoR, ongoing)

• Methods to design liner shipping networks (ongoing)

• (external) PhD Design of green supply chains (ongoing)

• 3 MEL theses (Maintenance in Indonesian ports, green shipping,

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ship spare parts networks)
ESE Dekker – projects 2011
• Tanker arrival schemes at LNG terminals (Vopak)

• Value of stochastic travel times estimates in truck

planning (Verkeersonderneming)

• Start of PhD project Design methods for liner shipping

networks (ESE PhD – sept 2011)

• Overview paper on green logistics

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Dekker – more projects 2011
• Production scheduling with chemical company INVISTA

• Investigating feasibility of spare parts pools between

similar companies (strengthening industrial complex).

• Cost analysis of intermodal tank container supply chains

• Empty container repositioning (MEL thesis)

• Optimisation of ship anchoring sites (teaching case with

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Huisman)
ESE Dekker – miscellaneous
• Case – Challenges in Port of Rotterdam – MBAs India
• Teaching MEL courses
• Teaching case container logistics, Port Community
Systems
• Teaching supply chain management Korea & Rennes
• Conference visits and presentations MTEC (Singapore),
POMS (Reno), visit Shanghai universities, Univ. de
Nantes, Imperial College

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