In the literature, Erera, Morales, and Savelsbergh (2005) compare a base repositioning strategy (a current state-of-the-practice) with three alternative strategies which integrate the repositioning and routing of the containers simultaneously. These three strategies are
weekly, bounded daily, and unbounded daily repositioning. Erera et al. (2005) compare these strategies on a network with 10 ports
and 900 orders and up to 1000 containers. They show that the proper timing of repositioning is more important than deciding
on the number of containers to be repositioned, and unbounded daily repositioning in overall is the best strategy.