Combined fleet deployment and inventory management in roll-on/roll-off shipping

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 92, Issue , 2016, Pages 43-55

  Chandra, Saurabh ^a   Christiansen, Marielle ^b   Fagerholt, Kjetil ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INDORE   (India)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fleet deployment; Inventory routing; Liner shipping; Ro ro

Indexed keywords

FLEET OPERATIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHIPS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

END TO END; FLEET DEPLOYMENT; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY ROUTING; LINER SHIPPING; MARITIME TRANSPORTATION; ROLLING HORIZON; RO–RO; SHIPPING COMPANIES; TRADE ROUTES;

INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

MARITIME TRANSPORTATION; MODELING; PORT OPERATION; SHIPPING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 84966560300     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2016.03.014     Document Type: Article

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