Designing container shipping network under changing demand and freight rates

Transport

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-57

  Chen, Chao ^a   Zeng, Qingcheng ^a  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Average unit ship slot profit; Container configuration; Container shipping; Empty container repositioning; Optimization; Ship slot allocating

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY; CONTAINER SHIPPINGS; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; EMPTY CONTAINER REPOSITIONING; MIXED INTEGER NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; MODEL AND ALGORITHMS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

SHIPS;

EID: 77950489983     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/transport.2010.07     Document Type: Article

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