Robust bunker management for liner shipping networks

Shuaian Wang and Qiang Meng

European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 243, issue 3, 789-797

Abstract: This paper examines the sailing speed of containerships and refueling of bunker in a liner shipping network while considering that the real speed may deviate from the planned one. It develops a mixed-integer nonlinear optimization model to minimize the total cost consisting of ship cost, bunker cost, and inventory cost, under the worst-case bunker consumption scenario. A close-form expression for the worst-case bunker consumption is derived and three linearization techniques are proposed to transform the nonlinear model to a mixed-integer linear programming formulation. A case study based on the Asia–Europe–Oceania network of a global liner shipping company demonstrates the applicability of the proposed model and interesting managerial insights are obtained.

Keywords: Transportation; Container liner shipping; Bunker; Sailing speed; Refill port (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.12.049

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