Container routing in liner shipping

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-7

  Wang, Shuaian ^a,b   Meng, Qiang ^b   Sun, Zhuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Container routing; Liner shipping; Maritime cabotage; Transit time

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SHIPS;

CONTAINER ROUTING; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; LEVEL OF SERVICE; LINER SHIPPING; LINK-BASED; MARITIME CABOTAGE; MULTI-COMMODITY FLOW; OPERATIONAL NETWORK; ROUTINGS; TRANSIT-TIME;

CONTAINERS;

COMMODITY; CONTAINER TERMINAL; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PLANNING METHOD; SHIPPING; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; CARGO HANDLING; CONTAINER SHIP; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; PORT OPERATION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 84864818862     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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