Flexible ship loading problem with transfer vehicle assignment and scheduling
Çağatay Iris,
Jonas Christensen,
Dario Pacino and
Stefan Ropke
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2018, vol. 111, issue C, 113-134
Abstract:
This paper presents the flexible containership loading problem for seaport container terminals. The integrated management of loading operations, planning of the transport vehicles to use and their scheduling is what we define as the Flexible Ship Loading Problem (FSLP). The flexibility comes from a cooperative agreement between the terminal operator and the liner shipping company, specifying that the terminal has the right to decide which specific container to load for each slot obeying the class-based stowage plan received from the liner. We formulate a mathematical model for the problem. Then we present various modelling enhancements and a mathematical model to obtain strong lower bounds. We also propose a heuristic algorithm to solve the problem. It is shown that enhancements improve the performance of formulation significantly, and the heuristic efficiently generates high-quality solutions. Results also point out that substantial cost savings can be achieved by integrating the ship loading operations.
Keywords: Ship loading; Container terminals; Stowage planning; Transport operations in yard; Mega vessels; Shipping lines and port collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (34)
Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191261517308196
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transb:v:111:y:2018:i:c:p:113-134
Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
https://shop.elsevie ... _01_ooc_1&version=01
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2018.03.009
Access Statistics for this article
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological is currently edited by Fred Mannering
More articles in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu (repec@elsevier.com).