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Container liner shipping network design with shipper’s dual preference

Computers & Operations Research, 2021
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Cheng, Qin, Wang, Chuanxu
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Container routing in liner shipping

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2013
Abstract Container paths play an important role in liner shipping services with container transshipment operations. In the literature, link-based multi-commodity flow formulations are widely used for container routing. However, they have two deficiencies: the level of service in terms of the origin-to-destination transit time is not incorporated and ...
Wang, Shuaian, Meng, Qiang, Sun, Zhuo
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Liner container seasonal shipping revenue management

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2015
This paper proposes a liner container seasonal shipping revenue management problem for a container shipping company. For a given weekly multi-type shipment demand pattern in a particular season, the proposed problem aims to maximize the total seasonal shipping profit by determining the number of multi-type containers to be transported and assigned on ...
Yadong Wang, Qiang Meng, Yuquan Du
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Czechs on ships: liners, containers and the sea

Journal of Tourism History, 2021
The essay juxtaposes, as in a poetic metaphor, Czech sea voyages to Southeast Asia in the late colonial era, as described in the travellers’ writings, and the author’s recent voyage on a container ...
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Optimisation in Container Liner Shipping

2017
We will give an overview of several decision problem encountered in liner shipping. We will cover problems on the strategic, tactical and operational planning levels as well as problems that can be considered at two planning levels simultaneously. Furthermore, we will shortly discuss some related problems in terminals, geographical bottlenecks for ...
Mulder, Judith, Dekker, Rommert
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Sailing speed optimization for container ships in a liner shipping network

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2012
Abstract This paper first calibrates the bunker consumption – sailing speed relation for container ships using historical operating data from a global liner shipping company. It proceeds to investigate the optimal sailing speed of container ships on each leg of each ship route in a liner shipping network while considering transshipment and container ...
Wang, S., Meng, Q.
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Schedule Design and Container Routing in Liner Shipping

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2011
A liner shipping company seeks to provide liner services with shorter transit time compared with the benchmark of market-level transit time because of the ever-increasing competition. When the itineraries of its liner service routes are determined, the liner shipping company designs the schedules of the liner routes such that the wait time at ...
Wang, S., Meng, Q.
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Bunker Procurement Planning for Container Liner Shipping Companies

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2015
This paper investigates the bunker procurement planning (BPP) problem arising for a container liner shipping company that plans to purchase bunker from both bunker futures contracts and the spot market to hedge the risk in fluctuation of and increases in bunker prices.
Qiang Meng, Yadong Wang, Yuquan Du
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Liner ship fleet deployment with container transshipment operations

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2012
This paper proposes a liner ship fleet deployment (LSFD) problem with container transshipment operations. The proposed problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming model which allows container transshipment operations at any port, any number of times, without explicitly defining the container transshipment variables.
Wang, S., Meng, Q.
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Competition and the container liner shipping industry

2018
The general objective of this chapter is to assess the competitive conditions of the container liner shipping industry. To do this, it takes a closer look at four key issues in container liner shipping: pricing as an indicator of competition, market concentration, product development and differentiation, and (de)regulation.
Hilde Meersman, Christa Sys, Eddy Van de Voorde, Thierry Vanelslander   +3 more
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