Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3015-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSE.2012.6414421