With the growth of international trade and the constant expansion of port scale, channel gradually becomes the bottleneck to restrict the increase of port efficiency in the port development. Channel, as part of the whole port and channel operating system, has many factors influencing its transit capacity which is difficult to calculate. Under the premise of the analysis of a number of factors, this paper uses Arena simulation software to simulate transport ship sailing operation systems in coastal container port. And this paper obtains that the influence relation between single-channel transit capacity and shipping navigation duration is exponential distribution, and the greater the AWT/AST value is, the higher degree of curve-fitting will be; shipping navigation duration has no effect on double-channel transit capacity.

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The number of piracy attacks in the Strait of Malacca is significantly reduced from 112 in 2000 to 2 in 2009. While people are celebrating the success of anti-piracy operations applied in the Strait, the number of piracy attacks in the Somalia region increased to its peak. According to the IMO, there were a total of 406 piracy attacks reported worldwide in 2009 and Somali pirates accounted for 217 attacks. There is a total of 1052 crew taken hostage with 68 injured and eight were killed. Since the attacks were well organized and sophisticated weapons such as RPGs were used, it caught the eyes of the world in the news headlines. This paper studies the successful factors as well as the deficiencies in the anti-piracy operations as applied in the two cases and provides an anti-piracy framework for combating piracy to improve maritime security in the high sea.

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In this research, we discuss a problem in Airline Revenue Management (ARM), which is dynamic pricing model for two parallel flights owned by the same airline. We extended the existing model on Joint Pricing Model for Parallel Flights in the literature to consider overbooking, cancellations, and no-show customers. To solve the model, we develop a dynamic programming to optimize ticket fares of both flights simultaneously and dynamically over the selling horizon . The objective is to maximize the total expected revenue of both flights. In our experiments, we also determine the overbooking limit of both flights to anticipate the occurrence of cancellations and no-shows. We have conducted some numerical experiments to show the behavior of our proposed model.

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Emerging markets such as China and India have risen abruptly in recent years, with other newly developing countries followed closely behind. This paper employs the data envelopment analysis technique to estimate the efficiency of the major ports in the V.I.S.T.A. and the ASEAN countries. Research results indicated that the largest container port in Singapore, South Africa and Turkey were efficient ports in CCR and BCC model. Using the CCR model (self-assessment) and the CCR cross efficiency model (relative-assessment), it had been found that the major ports in Singapore and South Africa were situated in Group I which was labeled as benchmark ports. Whereas the operational efficiency of the other VISTA ports were situated in Group III, it shows lots of ports in emerging markets have not paid much attention on the operational efficiency of their ports.

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There are many small islands in the Seto-Inland Sea in Japan. The depopulation and population ageing on these islands have caused amount of people who use ferry and rapid boat lines which connect between these islands and the main island to decrease dramatically. At present, the measures for this situation are being considered but we don’t have fundamental data to discuss about this measure, such as actual condition of travel behavior of islanders to the outside of the island. Then, on the basis of the questionnaire survey to the people who live on the Oasaki-Kamijima Island, which is located in Seto-Inland Sea, we analyze travel behavior of the people to outside of the island and try to reveal an actual use condition of ferry and rapid boat lines which connect between the island and the main island.

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The Transportation Service Index (TSI) is a monthly (quarterly) measure of the volume of services performed by the for-hire transportation sectors. The objective of this study is to develop and analyze TSI for cross-border transportation. The cross-border transport is classified into four sectors: air passenger, maritime passenger, air freight and maritime freight. For each sector, a seasonal adjustment model is developed. Passenger index and freight index are calculated by employing the Fisher's ideal index method. The Cross-border Air Passenger and Freight TSIs steadily increased from 1995 to 2008. These can be lagged index comparing with the business cycle in Korea. The cross-border TSIs are not likely to be useful in forecasting economic activity in the future. However, they can be useful for transportation planning and decision-making: monitoring of transportation service changes, analyzing the effect of the execution of transportation policy and so on.

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