Ship routing and scheduling in the new millennium
TL;DR: This work reviews research on ship routing and scheduling and related problems during the new millennium and provides four basic models in this domain and over a hundred new refereed papers on this topic during the last decade.
About: This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 2013-08-01. It has received 490 citations till now.
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TL;DR: A comprehensive review of inventory-routing problem literature is provided, based on a new classification of the problem, which categorizes IRPs with respect to their structural variants and the availability of information on customer demand.
Abstract: The inventory-routing problem (IRP) dates back 30 years. It can be described as the combination of vehicle-routing and inventory management problems, in which a supplier has to deliver products to a number of geographically dispersed customers, subject to side constraints. It provides integrated logistics solutions by simultaneously optimizing inventory management, vehicle routing, and delivery scheduling. Some exact algorithms and several powerful metaheuristic and matheuristic approaches have been developed for this class of problems, especially in recent years. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of this literature, based on a new classification of the problem. We categorize IRPs with respect to their structural variants and the availability of information on customer demand.
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...Literature reviews are provided in Ronen (1993); Christiansen, Fagerholt, and Ronen (2004); Christiansen et al. (2007); Christiansen et al. (2013)....
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...Thus, some authors have included workforce management within the periodic VRP for assigning territories to drivers as in Christofides and Beasley (1984); Beasley (1984); Barlett and Ghoshal (2002); Zhong, Hall, and Dessouky (2007)....
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TL;DR: This paper classify this new literature according to the features of models considered for berth allocation, quay crane scheduling and integrated approaches by using the classification schemes proposed in the preceding survey.
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TL;DR: In this article, a wide range of issues including strategic planning, tactical planning, and operations management issues are discussed, which are categorized into six research areas, and the relationships between these research areas are discussed and relevant literature is reviewed.
Abstract: This paper surveys the extant research in the field of ocean container transport. A wide range of issues is discussed including strategic planning, tactical planning and operations management issues, which are categorized into six research areas. The relationships between these research areas are discussed and the relevant literature is reviewed. Representative models are selected or modified to provide a flavour of their functions and application context, and used to explain current shipping practices. Future research opportunities bearing in mind the emerging phenomena in the field are discussed. The main purpose is to raise awareness and encourage more research into and application of operations management techniques and tools in container transport chains.
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...…(not limited with container shipping) has been covered in a few survey papers, e.g. Ronen 1983; Ronen 1993; Christiansen et al. (2004); Christiansen et al. (2007); Psaraftis and Kontovas (2013); Christiansen et al. (2013); Brouer et al. (2014a); Meng et al. (2014); and Tran and Haasis (2015)....
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...A number of survey papers have covered this topic, e.g. Christiansen et al. (2004); Christiansen et al. (2007); Christiansen et al. (2013); Brouer et al. (2014a); Meng et al. (2014); and Tran and Haasis (2015)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the past and present research on green ports and maritime logistics in order to identify established research streams and fertile research areas with potential for future investigations using rigorous bibliometric and network analysis tools.
Abstract: This paper aims to examine the past and present research on ‘green ports and maritime logistics’ in order to identify established research streams and fertile research areas with potential for future investigations. Using rigorous bibliometric and network analysis tools, the paper completes a systemic mapping of the existing literature and identifies the key investigators, collaboration patterns, research clusters and interrelationships, and the “seminal research areas” that have provided the field with the foundational knowledge, concepts, theories, tools, and techniques. Major articles within each seminal research area are also identified. This will allow new researchers to quickly build understanding in a particular sub-field by reading these major articles. The findings obtained from the evolution of seminal research areas over time are important from both research and practice perspectives and can help the field grow in many dimensions.
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TL;DR: Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest as mentioned in this paper, and the diversity of applications has motivated the study of a myriad of problem variants with different attributes.
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TL;DR: An earlier survey which proved to be of utmost importance for the community is updated and extended to provide the current state of the art in container terminal operations and operations research.
Abstract: The current decade sees a considerable growth in worldwide container transportation and with it an indispensable need for optimization. Also the interest in and availability of academic literatures as well as case reports are almost exploding. With this paper an earlier survey which proved to be of utmost importance for the community is updated and extended to provide the current state of the art in container terminal operations and operations research.
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TL;DR: The objective of this paper is to review the current status of ship routing and scheduling and focus on literature published during the last decade, indicating both accelerating needs for and benefits from such systems.
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to review the current status of ship routing and scheduling. We focus on literature published during the last decade. Because routing and scheduling problems are closely related to many other fleet planning problems, we have divided this review into several parts. We start at the strategic fleet planning level and discuss the design of fleets and sea transport systems. We continue with the tactical and operational fleet planning level and consider problems that comprise various ship routing and scheduling aspects. Here, we separately discuss the different modes of operations: industrial, tramp, and liner shipping. Finally, we take a glimpse at naval applications and other related problems that do not naturally fall into these categories. The paper also presents some perspectives regarding future developments and use of optimization-based decision-support systems for ship routing and scheduling. Several of the trends indicate both accelerating needs for and benefits from such systems and, hopefully, this paper will stimulate further research in this area.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate whether vessel speed reduction can be a potentially cost-effective CO2 mitigation option for ships calling on US ports, by applying a profit-maximizing equation to estimate route-specific, economically-efficient speeds.
Abstract: Greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping are an increasing concern. The paper evaluates whether vessel speed reduction can be a potentially cost-effective CO2 mitigation option for ships calling on US ports. By applying a profit-maximizing equation to estimate route-specific, economically-efficient speeds, we explore policy impacts of a fuel tax and a speed reduction mandate on CO2 emissions. The profit-maximizing function incorporates opportunity costs associated with speed reduction that go unobserved in more traditional marginal abatement cost analyses. We find that a fuel tax of about $150/ton fuel will lead to average speed-related CO2 reductions of about 20–30%. Moreover, a speed reduction mandate targeted to achieve 20% CO2 reduction in the container fleet costs between $30 and $200 per ton CO2 abated, depending on how the fleet responds to a speed reduction mandate.
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TL;DR: The Review of Maritime Transport as mentioned in this paper is a recurrent publication prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) secretariat since 1968 with the aim of fostering the transparency of maritime markets and analysing relevant developments.
Abstract: The Review of Maritime Transport is a recurrent publication prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) secretariat since 1968 with the aim of fostering the transparency of maritime markets and analysing relevant developments. This document covers data and events from January 2013 until June 2014. It compares the trends in maritime activities in developing and developed countries. Topics include: trends in international shipping, ownership of the world fleet, freight rates and transport costs, port developments, legal issues, and regulatory developments relating to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The last chapter focuses on maritime transport in small island developing States.
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