The area of maritime transportation optimization has recently begun to achieve increasing
success at solving large scale models, and industry is steadily adopting operations research …

It is crucial to disclose the causal factors to eliminate the oil spills arising from bunkering
operations. To address this phenomenon, this paper presents a novel model for causal …

This research explores ways to develop a risk management strategy that enables shipping
companies to reduce unnecessary fuel cost risks, fuel price fluctuations and improve …

Ship bunkering, a safety critical operation in marine engineering, can cause drastic
environmental damage at sea. Though bunkering presents high safety procedures, minor …

This paper considers the e-commerce enterprises as the principal who outsource logistics
services to the express delivery firms acting as the agent. The delivery enterprise faced with …

Bunkering cost is a significant contributor to the total operating cost of ships. The number of
shipping companies seeking to actively manage this cost either by adapting market offered …

Greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry have been a major challenge in the
sustainability of international transportation. This paper studied shore power management …

This study investigates an optimal control policy for a liner ship to decide at which ports and
how much fuel the liner ship should be refueled under stochastic fuel consumption in each …

About 63% of the world's shipping accidents are recurrent—they occur to ships that have
already experienced at least one prior accident. Therefore, reducing recurrent accidents can …

Maritime fuel management (MFM) controls the procurement and consumption of the fuels
used on board and therefore manages one of the most important cost drivers in the shipping …