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Sailing speed optimization for container ships in a liner shipping network
Shuaian Wang,Qiang Meng +1 more
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In this article, the authors first calibrates the bunker consumption and sailing speed relation for container ships using historical operating data from a global liner shipping company and then investigates the optimal sailing speed of container ships on each leg of each ship route in a liner shipping network while considering transshipment and container routing.Abstract:
This paper first calibrates the bunker consumption – sailing speed relation for container ships using historical operating data from a global liner shipping company. It proceeds to investigate the optimal sailing speed of container ships on each leg of each ship route in a liner shipping network while considering transshipment and container routing. This problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model. In view of the convexity, non-negativity, and univariate properties of the bunker consumption function, an efficient outer-approximation method is proposed to obtain an e-optimal solution with a predetermined optimality tolerance level e. The proposed model and algorithm is applied to a real case study for a global liner shipping company.read more
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Speed models for energy-efficient maritime transportation: A taxonomy and survey
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Containership Routing and Scheduling in Liner Shipping: Overview and Future Research Directions
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A Base Integer Programming Model and Benchmark Suite for Liner-Shipping Network Design
Berit Dangaard Brouer,J. Fernando Alvarez,Christian Edinger Munk Plum,David Pisinger,Mikkel M. Sigurd +4 more
TL;DR: The liner-shipping network design problem is proved to be strongly NP-hard and a benchmark suite of data instances to reflect the business structure of a global liner shipping network is presented.
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Ocean container transport in global supply chains: Overview and research opportunities
Chung Yee Lee,Dong-Ping Song +1 more
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Liner shipping service network design with empty container repositioning
Qiang Meng,Shuaian Wang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a liner shipping service network design problem with combined hub-and-spoke and multi-port calling operations and empty container repositioning, which can be efficiently solved by CPLEX for real-case problems.
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