Liner shipping cycle cost modelling, fleet deployment optimization and what-if analysis

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 278-297

  Zacharioudakis, Panayotis G ^a   Iordanis, Stylianos ^a   Lyridis, Dimitrios V ^a   Psaraftis, Harilaos N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

cost model; fleet deployment; genetic algorithms; liner network; Liner shipping; optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860415103     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2011.11     Document Type: Article

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