A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports

Volume: 1 Number: 1 November 1, 2015
  • Ünal Özdemir
  • Abdulaziz Güneroğlu
  • Süleyman Köse
  • Faruk Buğra Demirel
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A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports

Abstract

Container transportation is the most preferred maritime commercial freight distribution in entire world except liquefied product transportation by tankers and bulk carriers. Totally 95% volume of general cargo is transported by container ships in the world due to fast, cheap andsafe carrying potential of the goods transfer. Containerization has become recent phenomena in the field of maritime transportation and the quantity of goods transported by containers is increasing day by day as well as the total container number to use for the commercial activity. Due to very high mobility in the field of container transportation, port traffic estimation, availability of containers, storage, deposition and allocation of empty containers have become recent problems in maritime transportation area. In this study some major container ports of Turkey which are stand for 80 % of total container operations are analyzed toseek for empty container balance. After detailed statistical evaluation of national container transportation figures for Haydarpaşa, Kumport, İzmir, Mardaş, Marport and Mersin, several interviews and discussions have been made with port authorities and governing departments. As a result, it is observed that there is no empty container accumulation problem in the examined ports except Haydarpaşa and Kumport. Based on general statistics, Turkish container ports currently do not suffer from empty container problem as overall container circulation close to equilibrium but the problem has a potential to create a risk on developinginternational trade of Turkey.Keywords: Empty container, repositioning, container ports, Turkey

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Authors

Ünal Özdemir This is me

Abdulaziz Güneroğlu This is me

Süleyman Köse This is me

Faruk Buğra Demirel This is me

Publication Date

November 1, 2015

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November 1, 2015

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Year 2015 Volume: 1 Number: 1

APA
Özdemir, Ü., Güneroğlu, A., Köse, S., & Demirel, F. B. (2015). A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports. Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences, 1(1), 18-29. https://izlik.org/JA53MG55EN
AMA
1.Özdemir Ü, Güneroğlu A, Köse S, Demirel FB. A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports. TRJMMS. 2015;1(1):18-29. https://izlik.org/JA53MG55EN
Chicago
Özdemir, Ünal, Abdulaziz Güneroğlu, Süleyman Köse, and Faruk Buğra Demirel. 2015. “A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports”. Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences 1 (1): 18-29. https://izlik.org/JA53MG55EN.
EndNote
Özdemir Ü, Güneroğlu A, Köse S, Demirel FB (November 1, 2015) A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports. Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences 1 1 18–29.
IEEE
[1]Ü. Özdemir, A. Güneroğlu, S. Köse, and F. B. Demirel, “A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports”, TRJMMS, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 18–29, Nov. 2015, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA53MG55EN
ISNAD
Özdemir, Ünal - Güneroğlu, Abdulaziz - Köse, Süleyman - Demirel, Faruk Buğra. “A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports”. Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences 1/1 (November 1, 2015): 18-29. https://izlik.org/JA53MG55EN.
JAMA
1.Özdemir Ü, Güneroğlu A, Köse S, Demirel FB. A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports. TRJMMS. 2015;1:18–29.
MLA
Özdemir, Ünal, et al. “A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports”. Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1, Nov. 2015, pp. 18-29, https://izlik.org/JA53MG55EN.
Vancouver
1.Ünal Özdemir, Abdulaziz Güneroğlu, Süleyman Köse, Faruk Buğra Demirel. A Survey of Empty Container Flow Balance in Turkish Ports. TRJMMS [Internet]. 2015 Nov. 1;1(1):18-29. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA53MG55EN

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