Highlights A new combined fleet deployment and inventory management problem in Ro-Ro shipping. A novel MIP model for this problem. Solve realistic but partly randomly generate test instances. Substantial savings can be achieved.
Abstract We consider a combined fleet deployment and inventory management problem in Roll-on Roll-off shipping. Along given trade routes there are ports with inventories that should be kept within their limits. Current planning practice is to visit all ports every time a trade route is serviced. We instead aim at determining the sailing routes of each voyage along the trade route, where some ports can be skipped on certain voyages. A novel mixed integer programming model is proposed and tested on realistic instances. The results indicate that substantial gains can be achieved from this more flexible way of planning.
Combined maritime fleet deployment and inventory management with port visit flexibility in roll-on roll-off shipping
2020-05-23
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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