The Scheduling of a Barge Line

O'Brien, George G.; Crane, Roger R.

doi:10.1287/opre.7.5.561

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“…Christiansen et al (2007) give a comprehensive review of advances in maritime transportation modeling problems, while Vacca et al (2010) give an overview of the berth allocation and crane assignment problems. To the best of our knowledge, the first paper relevant to modeling barge transportation is that of O'Brien and Crane (1959), who use a simulation model to determine the allocation of tug boats and determine the optimal number of barge loads on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Schwartz (1968) describes a transshipment-scheduling model that minimizes barge fleet costs, but he notes that his model is so complex that it could not be used given the current technology, despite some significant simplifications, such as infinite fleet capacity and a homogenous fleet.…”

Section: Maritime and Barging Problemsmentioning

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Improving the Maritime Transshipment Operations of the Noble Group

Fragkos¹,

Reyck²

2016

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The Noble Group is a market-leading global supply chain manager of agricultural products, metals and minerals, operating in more than 140 locations. This paper focuses on Noble's maritime operations in Indonesia, where coal is transported from mines to ocean-bound vessels via roads and rivers. Currently, transportation delays are causing Noble to lose tens of millions of dollars per year in demurrage and detention penalties. Additional resources such as barges and floating cranes can be hired in advance to minimize the impact of delays, but their economic benefit is often unclear. In an attempt to reduce or eliminate these delays, we develop a modeling framework and decision support system to facilitate the planning and management of Noble's transshipment operations. The system utilizes fast search algorithms that deliver efficient schedules,

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Section: Maritime and Barging Problemsmentioning

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Improving the Maritime Transshipment Operations of the Noble Group

Fragkos¹,

Reyck²

2016

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“…As tools for identifying adequate solutions, optimization and simulation models can be found in many transportation studies in the field of inland waterway transport. A case history of an operations research study of a barge line has been provided by O'Brien and Crane (1). A discrete programming model for moving accepted cargoes from origin to destinations within an allotted time at minimum barge-line fleet costs has been developed (2).…”

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Determining Optimal Transport Routes of Inland Waterway Container Ships

Maraš

2008

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The transport routes of chartered container ships or tows in inland waterway transport are investigated in this paper. The optimal values of parameters that influence the efficient utilization of these ships or tows or business success of a container shipping company with available container ships of this kind in its fleet are also determined. These parameters include size of container ship on a certain route, number of containers loaded or unloaded at each port on a route, ship speed, realized revenues, costs and profit, and others. The proposed model helps in evaluating whether an inland waterway container ship or tow should be chartered or not. The optimal values of all parameters, based on the developed mixed-integer linear programming model, are determined by using LINGO, specialized software for mathematical programming.

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“…Relevant studies include Brown et al [2], Nulty and Ratliff [10], Cline et al [11], and Williams [12]. O'Brien and Crane [13] dealt with the ship scheduling problem of barges and towing boats. Millar and Gunn [14] used mixed integer programming and heuristic methods to dispatch the fleet of towing-net fishing boats.…”

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“…For example, in Table IV, the optimal allocation amount of coal supply in January is 23,400 tonnes, and the coal is shipped by Panamax (loading capacity is 57,000 of tonnes). Since the inventory amount left from the previous year is only 13,500 tonnes and is not for allocation, the allocation amount will be made up in March. However, since the vessel remains under-loaded for shipping, the rest of the capacity is made up by the allocation amount for June before it reaches the capacity for shipping.…”

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Taipower′s coal logistics system

Tzeng

Hwang²,

Ting

1995

International Journal of Physical Distribution &Amp; Logistics Management

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Concerns the logistics system of the Taiwan power company, Taipower, and the problem it faces of coal allocation and fleet deployment of dedicated coal carriers. The coal allocation problem can be viewed as a multi‐index transportation problem requiring the formulation of a coal allocation model. Owing to the high uncertainty of shipping operations, formulates a dynamic fleet assignment model to dispatch vessels and maximize ship usage. An integrated coal allocation and fleet assignment decision support system based on these models was developed to assist the decision maker. It not only guides Taipower marine operations management in annual schedule planning, but also assists operating personnel to allocate vessels to the schedules and to make rapid adjustments. Demonstrates the potential for substantial cost improvement in Taipower coal trade.

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The Scheduling of a Barge Line

Cited by 13 publications

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Improving the Maritime Transshipment Operations of the Noble Group

Improving the Maritime Transshipment Operations of the Noble Group

Determining Optimal Transport Routes of Inland Waterway Container Ships

Taipower′s coal logistics system

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