A service flow model for the liner shipping network design problem

Abstract

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Bunker Purchasing in Liner Shipping

“…This gives an advantage in bunker purchasing, when a vessel has a stable schedule known for some months ahead. The regularity in the vessel schedules in liner shipping allows for detailed planning of a specific vessel, as considered in the works of Plum and Jensen (2007), Besbes and Savin (2009), Kim et al (2012), Kim (2014), Sheng et al (2014) and Yao et al (2012). These papers consider variants of a bunker optimization problem considering a single vessel.…”

“…The work of Plum and Jensen (2007) considers multiple tanks in the vessel and stochasticity of both prices and consumption, as well as a range of operational constraints. Yao et al (2012) does not consider stochastic elements nor tanks, but has vessel speed as an variable of the model.…”

The time constrained multi-commodity network flow problem and its application to liner shipping network design

“…Each modeling approach has different properties and benefits. An alternative modeling approach to the ones presented in the following is given in Plum et al (2013). Figure 8-11 show different graph representations of a transshipment structure.…”

A Matheuristic for the Liner Shipping Network Design Problem with Transit Time Restrictions

“…Recent literature on liner shipping network design allows arbitrary transit times for all commodities (Brouer et al, 2014b;Liu et al, 2014;Wang and Meng, 2014;Mulder and Dekker, 2014;Brouer et al, 2014a;Plum et al, 2014;Reinhardt and Pisinger, 2012;Gelareh et al, 2010;Agarwal and Ergun, 2008) although it is generally acknowledged that transit times are decisive for the competitiveness of the network design. This means that from the customer perspective liner shipping network design has multiple objectives as the customers prefer minimal transit times along with low freight rates.…”