Cargo routing and empty container repositioning in multiple shipping service routes

Song, Dong‐Ping; Dong, Jingxin

doi:10.1016/j.trb.2012.08.003

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“…The difficulty in applying optimisation to supply chains lies in the development of a model that would represent the complexity and uncertainty of the supply chain with satisfying accuracy and would still be relatively simple to solve (Harrison, 2005). Empty-container repositioning is modelled in the literature as a location problem (Mittal et al, 2013), routing problem (Braekers et al, 2013a), routing and assignment problem (Nossack & Pesch, 2013), inventory control problems (Dang et al, 2012) or cargo flow optimisation problem (Song & Dong, 2012). The focus of location problems is the inland depot localisation.…”

Section: The Concept Of the Emptycontainer Supply Chainmentioning

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Prerequisites for the modelling of empty container supply chains

Kuźmicz

Pesch

2017

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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A B S T R A C T Containerisation of freight transport significantly facilitates the flow of traded goods between remote destinations. The most important container transport routes link Asia with North America and Europe. The seasonality and imbalance of trade are the main factors giving rise to problems related to empty container repositioning. The aim of this paper is to develop a concept of empty container supply chains and formulate prerequisites for its modelling in the search for the optimal solution with the help of linear programming and mixed integer programming methods. This paper indicates causes of the empty container relocation problem based on the literature analysis with a special focus on the Eurasian transportation route. Also, it provides a concept of empty container supply chain, prerequisites for its modelling and examples of container supply chains modelling presented in the literature. The main results of the paper include conceptualisation of an empty container supply chain and suggested modelling prerequisites. The paper contributes to research in the field of supply chain management and optimisation of transportation. K E Y W O R D S container transportation, supply chains, modelling, optimisation methods

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Section: The Concept Of the Emptycontainer Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prerequisites for the modelling of empty container supply chains

Kuźmicz

Pesch

2017

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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“…According to reviews of Christiansen et al (2004), Christiansen et al (2013) and Meng et al (2014), most studies on liner shipping operations focus on network design, ship deployment, and container routing with fixed schedules or without considering the schedules, e.g., Fagerholt (1999), Shintani et al (2007), Gelareh and Meng (2010), Meng and Wang (2010), Bell et al (2011), , Reinhardt and Pisinger (2012), Dong and Song (2012) and Brouer et al (2013a).…”

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Liner ship route schedule design with port time windows

Wang

Alharbi

Davy

2014

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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This paper examines a practical tactical liner ship route schedule design problem, which is the determination of the arrival and departure time at each port of call on the ship route. When designing the schedule, the availability of each port in a week, i.e., port time window, is incorporated. As a result, the designed schedule can be applied in practice without or with only minimum revisions. This problem is formulated as a mixedinteger nonlinear nonconvex optimization model. In view of the problem structure, an efficient holistic solution approach is proposed to obtain global optimal solution. The proposed solution method is applied to a trans-Atlantic ship route. The results demonstrate that the port time windows, port handling efficiency, bunker price and unit inventory cost all affect the total cost of a ship route, the optimal number of ships to deploy, and the optimal schedule. problem, which is the determination of the arrival and departure time at each port of call on the ship route. When designing the schedule, the availability of each port in a week, i.e., port time window, is incorporated. As a result, the designed schedule can be applied in practice without or with only minimum revisions. This problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear non-convex optimization model. In view of the problem structure, an efficient holistic solution approach is proposed to obtain global optimal solution. The proposed * Corresponding author.E-mail addresses: wangshuaian@gmail.com (S. Wang), afma987@uowmail.edu.au (A. Alharbi), pjd@uow.edu.au (P. Davy) 1 solution method is applied to a trans-Atlantic ship route. The results demonstrate that the port time windows, port handling efficiency, bunker price and unit inventory cost all affect the total cost of a ship route, the optimal number of ships to deploy, and the optimal schedule.

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“…4 (b), all the 5000n containers can be shipped. Most studies on liner shipping services require fixed port rotations as input of the models (Dong and Song, 2009;Bell et al, 2011;Qi and Song, 2012;Song and Dong, 2012;Wang and Meng, 2012b;Brouer et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2013b). One line of literature relevant to the optimization of port rotation directions is port rotation design, which is usually referred to as liner ship route design or liner shipping network design; for example, Shintani et al (2007), Agarwal and Ergun (2008), Alvarez (2009), Meng et al (2012, Reinhardt and Pisinger (2012).…”

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Reversing port rotation directions in a container liner shipping network

Wang

Meng

2013

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

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Reversing port rotation directions of ship routes is a practical alteration of container liner shipping networks. The port rotation directions of ship routes not only affect the transit time of containers, as has been recognized by the literature, but also the shipping capacity and transshipment cost. This paper aims to obtain the optimal port rotation directions that minimize the generalized network-wide cost including transshipment cost, slotpurchasing cost and inventory cost. A mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed for the optimal port rotation direction optimization problem and it nests a minimum cost multi-commodity network flow model. The proposed model is applied to a liner shipping network operated by a global liner shipping company. Results demonstrate that real-case instances could be efficiently solved and significant cost reductions are gained by optimization of port rotation directions. AbstractReversing port rotation directions of ship routes is a practical alteration of container liner shipping networks. The port rotation directions of ship routes not only affect the transit time of containers, as has been recognized by the literature, but also the shipping capacity and transshipment cost. This paper aims to obtain the optimal port rotation directions that minimize the generalized network-wide cost including transshipment cost, slot-purchasing cost and inventory cost. A mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed for the optimal port rotation direction optimization problem and it nests a minimum cost multicommodity network flow model. The proposed model is applied to a liner shipping network operated by a global liner shipping company. Results demonstrate that real-case instances could be efficiently solved and significant cost reductions are gained by optimization of port rotation directions.

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Cargo routing and empty container repositioning in multiple shipping service routes

Cited by 175 publications

References 37 publications

Prerequisites for the modelling of empty container supply chains

Prerequisites for the modelling of empty container supply chains

Liner ship route schedule design with port time windows

Reversing port rotation directions in a container liner shipping network

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