Container liner shipping is one of the most important transportation modes in international
trade. The industry is network-based, so network decision contributes much to the success of …

The liner-shipping network design problem is to create a set of nonsimple cyclic sailing
routes for a designated fleet of container vessels that jointly transports multiple commodities …

The studies of energy efficiency in shipping have grown in importance in light of recent air
pollution developments. Moreover, the Fourth Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Study of the …

This paper examines the design of liner ship route schedules that can hedge against the
uncertainties in port operations, which include the uncertain wait time due to port congestion …

In this paper, we study a comprehensive model that addresses fleet deployment, speed
optimization, and cargo allocation jointly, so as to maximize total profits at the strategic level …

This paper presents a holistic analysis for the network design problem of the intermodal liner
shipping system. Existing methods for liner shipping network design mainly deal with port-to …

Container paths play an important role in liner shipping services with container
transshipment operations. In the literature, link-based multi-commodity flow formulations are …

Maritime transport is one of the most ancient supports to human interactions across history
and it still supports more than 90 per cent of world trade volumes today. The changing …

The design of container shipping networks is an important logistics problem, involving
assets and operational costs measured in billions of dollars. To guide the optimal …

One of the most important strategic decisions of a liner shipping company is the design of a
set of cyclic routes, services, for container vessels to provide transport for goods from origins …