Liner ship route schedule design with port time windows

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-17

  Wang, Shuaian ^a   Alharbi, Abdurahim ^a   Davy, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Container liner shipping; Containership scheduling; Mixed integer nonlinear programming; Port time windows; Schedule design

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CONTAINER LINERS; CONTAINER SHIPS; GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; HANDLING EFFICIENCY; LINER SHIP ROUTE SCHEDULE DESIGNS; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION; TIME WINDOWS;

SHIPS;

CONTAINER SHIP; DESIGN; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INVENTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PORT OPERATION; SHIPPING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84894097204     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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