Designing robust liner shipping schedules: Optimizing recovery actions and buffer times

Mulder, Judith; Dekker, Rommert

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.05.066

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Eide et al ( 82 ) underlined that speed and load level of the ships highly impacted the routing determination. Mulder and Dekker ( 83 ) designed a liner shipping route to minimize operating costs.…”

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Bibliometric Review of Route Optimization in Maritime Transportation: Environmental Sustainability and Operational Efficiency

Mollaoğlu

Altay

Balın

2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Route optimization in maritime transportation provides enormous cost saving and efficient resource allocation for companies. Shipping companies need to create an optimized route for shipping fleets. That is why route optimization has gained considerable and increasing attention in maritime transportation literature over the past few years. This research aims to identify the theoretical cornerstones, current research trends, and possible research avenues for future studies by reviewing 256 peer-reviewed route optimization articles in maritime transportation literature. For this purpose, first, theoretical cornerstones of route optimization in maritime transportation literature were examined by co-citation analysis and three clusters were identified: fleet routing and deployment; liner shipping rotation; and optimization of fuel consumption and vessel speeds. Second, current research trends of route optimization in maritime transportation literature were uncovered via bibliographic coupling analysis. The analysis results revealed that current research trends could be considered in four clusters: route planning; routing under different weather conditions; liner shipping network and service design; and environmental speed optimization. Finally, author-keyword analysis was performed to specify knowledge gaps and recommend future research areas.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bibliometric Review of Route Optimization in Maritime Transportation: Environmental Sustainability and Operational Efficiency

Mollaoğlu

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Balın

2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…Mulder and Dekker [28] model the ship delay recovery problem as a Markov decision process to determine the optimal recovery policy and buffer time allocation by minimizing the total costs. Wen et al [29] study dynamic recovery policies for liner shipping service with the consideration of buffer time allocation and uncertainties.…”

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Green Vessel Scheduling with Weather Impact and Emission Control Area Consideration

Wen,

Chen,

Yin

et al. 2023

Mathematics

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Emissions of maritime transport have been a critical research topic with the substantial growth in the global shipping industry, encompassing both the expansion of the world fleet and the increased distances it has been covering recently. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has enforced some regulations to mitigate ship Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, which affect vessels’ operational practice, and further affect service reliability. In this paper, some compliance methods (two-speed strategy, fuel switching, and LNG) against Emission Control Areas (ECAs) at the operational level are examined regarding if and how they impact the liner shipping schedule and service reliability; meanwhile, uncertain weather conditions and port times, as the main uncertain factors, are also involved. Then, a bi-objective fuzzy programming model is formulated and solved by the augmented ε-constraint approach, which generates a set of Pareto solutions by balancing the economic and environmental sustainability. Some findings can be concluded through the experimental results, including that, firstly, to meet uncertain weather conditions at sea requires strong robustness; secondly, ECA regulations can negatively affect the liner shipping service level; moreover, slow steaming is an immediate and effective measure to reduce GHG emissions; and, furthermore, ship routing choice could have a significant influence on ship emissions and service reliability.

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“…Moreover, findings of Li et al [39] suggested that adopting real-time disruption recovery policies helps reduce the costs incurred from uncertain port times. Mulder and Dekker [42] showed that another way to deal with port and sailing time uncertainties is buffer time allocation which can decrease costs around 28.9%.…”

Section: Uncertainty In Port and Sailing Timesmentioning

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Green Container Shipping Schedule Design Considering Collaboration and Disruption Recovery

Kurtuluş

2023

IEEE Access

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Emission reduction ambition in shipping and efforts to provide measures to achieve zero emission in the industry is increasing in parallel to global environmental concerns. Designing container shipping schedules that create minimum emissions can help to achieve the zero-emission target. This study proposed a comprehensive green container shipping scheduling model considering port and sea passage disruption recovery i.e., speed adjustment, port skipping, and collaboration of carrier and terminal operators because using only speed increase as a disruption recovery measure results in increased emissions. A mixedinteger multi-objective robust programming model was developed and applied to a real-case container line service demonstrating its benefits regarding emissions and operational costs. The results showed that different instances of the model can be solved in a reasonable time by a generic solver. The experimental results demonstrated that the most effective disruption recovery measure in terms of both operational costs and emission tonnages is the time window collaboration. The insights gathered from the application of the model can benefit container lines that are willing to reduce their emissions and can help policymakers provide effective emission reduction policies by taxing emissions and ship fuel.

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Designing robust liner shipping schedules: Optimizing recovery actions and buffer times

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

Bibliometric Review of Route Optimization in Maritime Transportation: Environmental Sustainability and Operational Efficiency

Bibliometric Review of Route Optimization in Maritime Transportation: Environmental Sustainability and Operational Efficiency

Green Vessel Scheduling with Weather Impact and Emission Control Area Consideration

Green Container Shipping Schedule Design Considering Collaboration and Disruption Recovery

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