The container shipping network design problem with empty container repositioning

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-59

  Shintani, Koichi ^a   Imai, Akio ^b   Nishimura, Etsuko ^b   Papadimitriou, Stratos ^c  

^a OSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY OF MERCANTILE MARINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Container transportation; Empty container; Genetic algorithm; Heuristic; Routing

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SHIPS;

CONTAINER LINERS; CONTAINER SHIPPINGS; CONTAINER TRANSPORTATION; EMPTY CONTAINER; HEURISTIC; LINER SHIPPING; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORK DESIGN PROBLEMS; ROUTINGS; SERVICES NETWORK;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

CONTAINER SHIP; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEURISTICS; NETWORK DESIGN; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROUTING; SHIPPING;

EID: 33749530203     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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