Robust fleet sizing and deployment for industrial and independent bulk ocean shipping companies

INFOR

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-107

  Alvarez, J Fernando ^a   Tsilingiris, Panagiotis ^a   Engebrethsen, Erna S ^a   Kakalis, Nikolaos M P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

fleet deployment; fleet sizing; Robust integer programming

Indexed keywords

ASSET PRICES; DECISION PROBLEMS; DEPLOYMENT PROBLEMS; FLEET DEPLOYMENT; FLEET SIZING; GEOGRAPHIC MARKET; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODEL; MULTI-PERIOD; OCEAN SHIPPING; RISK TOLERANCE; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; SHIPPING MARKET; TRANSPORT DEMAND;

INDUSTRY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SHIPS;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

EID: 80053558915     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: 19160615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/infor.49.2.093     Document Type: Article

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