Container Shipping Optimization under Different Carbon Emission Policies: A Case Study

Optimization in container liner shipping

We will gives an overview of several decision problem encountered in liner shipping. We will cover problems on the strategic, tactical and operational planning levels as well as problems that can be considered at two planning levels simultaneously. Furthermore, we will shortly discuss some related problems in terminals, geographical bottlenecks for container ships and provide an overview of ope...

Simulation and optimization of container terminal operations: a case study

Container terminals are facing a set of interrelated problems. Container handling problems at container terminals are NP –hard problems. The docking time of container ships at the port must be optimized. In this paper we have built a simulation model that integrates all the activities of a container terminal. The proposed approach is applied on a real case study data of container terminal at El...

Collaborative shipping under different cost-sharing agreements

We study collaborative shipping where two shippers bundle their shipments to share the same transportation vehicle (also known as co-loading). The goal of such a collaboration is to reduce the total number of transports, thereby reducing transportation costs and GHG emissions. To synchronize the replenishment of both companies, we adopt a can-order joint replenishment policy for both companies,...

The container shipping network design problem with empty container repositioning

This paper addresses the design of container liner shipping service networks by explicitly taking into account empty container repositioning. Two key and interrelated issues, those of deploying ships and containers are usually treated separately by most existing studies on shipping network design. In this paper, both issues are considered simultaneously. The problem is formulated as a two-stage...

A Strategic Empty Container Logistics Optimization in a Major Shipping Company