Research on ship routing and deployment mode for a bulk

Author

Kang Kai ; Zhang Wei-cui ; Guo Ling-yun ; Ma Teng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Hebei Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1832

Lastpage

1837

Abstract

This article based on the relationships and characteristics of the ship routing and scheduling, depend on the thought of integrated optimization, to build an optimized model based on tramp which is a ship routing and deployment model for a bulk. The objective is to minimize the operating costs of a shipping company in a period of time, integrated navigation path selection and shipping arrangement, taking shipping capacity constraints and port draft restrictions into account, to meet diversification of customer needs. Finally, LINGO9.0 is used to solve the model which analyzed by an example. The purpose of article is to provide an optimized routing and scheduling choice to reduce the operating costs of the shipping company and to improve the overall competitiveness of the shipping company.

Keywords

cost reduction; customer services; international trade; optimisation; scheduling; ships; transportation; LINGO9.0; integrated navigation path selection; integrated optimization; international trade; maritime transportation; operating costs minimization; operating costs reduction; port draft restrictions; ship deployment mode; ship routing mode; ship scheduling; shipping arrangement; shipping capacity constraints; shipping company; Companies; Job shop scheduling; Loading; Marine vehicles; Optimization; Ports (Computers); Routing; bulk; deployment; scheduling; ship routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

ISSN

2155-1847

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3015-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSE.2012.6414421

Filename

6414421