Fleet deployment in liner shipping with incomplete demand information

ManWo Ng and Dung-Ying Lin

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2018, vol. 116, issue C, 184-189

Abstract: This paper examines the liner fleet deployment problem when only conditional shipping demand information is known. For such a case, it is generally not possible to determine the exact optimal solution. A set of complementary upper and lower bounds on the optimal cost are derived by exploiting the problem structure. These bounds are explicitly shown to converge to the optimal cost when a sufficiently refined partition is available. A numerical example illustrates the model.

Keywords: Liner shipping; Maritime transportation; Fleet deployment; Container (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2018.06.004

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