Uncertainties in Liner Shipping and Ship Schedule Recovery: A State-of-the-Art Review

Each shipping line is expected to establish a reliable operating model, and the design of ship schedules key operational consideration. Long-term profits for lines can be from well-designed schedule. In today’s liner service design, managing time factor critical. Shipping are prone different unexpected disruptions. Such disruptions would necessitate near-real-time analysis port capacity re-design original schedule offset negative externalities. Ship recovery strategies should implemented mitigate effects caused by at ports or sea, which may include, but not limited to, sailing speed adjustment, handling rate adjustment ports, skipping, skipping with container diversion. A proper selection minimize deviations reduce delays in delivery cargoes destination ports. This article offers thorough review current research primarily focusing on two major themes: (1) uncertainties operations; (2) response disruptive events. On basis detailed available literature, obtained results carefully investigated, limitations state-of-the-art determined every group studies. Furthermore, representative mathematical models provided that could further used future efforts dealing recovery. Last least, few prospective avenues suggested investigation.