Vessel Service Planning in Seaports

An Integrated Approach to Managing Vessel Service in Seaports Efficient vessel service is of utmost importance the maritime supply chain. When serving a group incoming vessels, berth allocation and pilotage planning are two most important decisions made by seaport. Although they closely correlated, problem often solved sequentially, leading suboptimal or even infeasible solutions for services. In “Vessel Planning Seaports,” Wu, Adulyasak, Cordeau, Wang focus on that optimizes combination. To solve joint problem, authors develop an exact solution method combines Benders decomposition column generation within efficient branch-and-bound framework. They also propose acceleration strategies significantly improve performance algorithm. Test instances from one world's largest seaports used validate effectiveness approach demonstrate value integrated planning.