Minimizing delay of ships in bulk terminals by simultaneous ship scheduling, stockyard planning and train scheduling

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 464-492

  Babu, Soudagar A K Irfan ^a   Pratap, Saurabh ^a   Lahoti, Geet ^a   Fernandes, Kiran J ^b   Tiwari, Manoj K ^a   Mount, Matthew ^c   Xiong, Yu ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coal import chain; heuristic; optimization; scheduling; stockyard management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947063658     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2014.20     Document Type: Article

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