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This chapter presents an outlook of maritime container terminal by examining the trend of globalization and port development within Asia and the impact on container port business activities and the environment. The importance of investment in Operations Research (OR) techniques on improving the productivities of maritime container terminals is highlighted.

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  1. Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan, Niigata, 949-7277, Japan

    Wenkai Li

  2. Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Southport, QLD, 4222, Australia

    Yong Wu

  3. School of Business IT and Logistics, Platform Technologies Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Mark Goh

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Li, W., Wu, Y., Goh, M. (2015). Introduction. In: Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17025-1_1

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