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Trans. Planning Journal
| Title | Modeling Ship’s Routing and Container Positioning for Transoceanic Liner |
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| Author | Hua-An Lu |
| Summary | The problem of container positioning is usually considered as a logistic operation in marine liner that costs much in practice for the company. Because of the variations of import and export goods in the respective ports, route design is supposed to govern the utilization of ship’s capacities and the allocation of devices. Its results also determine the profits of the carrier. In this paper we aimed to transfer the core concept of devices allocation into the concerns of the route planning, and furthermore, to formulate a mathematical model which can decide the ship’s routing, numbers of heavy and empty containers in sailing segments, status of empty containers positioning, allocated plan of containers in all visited ports, including the amounts of leasing containers, and so forth. Some different types of fleet are tested for their adequacy. The results showed that this model can obtain reliable decisions. Other sensitivity tests on fluctuating the quantities of demand and the parameters relative to the empty container can’t change the ship’s routing easily. The majority of varieties in objective all arise from the differences of given parameters. |
| Vol. | 32 |
| No. | 3 |
| Page | 423 |
| Year | 2003 |
| Month | 9 |
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