The Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem with Cargo Flows

Kevin Tierney
,
Rune Møller Jensen

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Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter

Book chapter

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Research Output:

Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter

Book chapter

Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1-16

Publication milestones

Published - 2012

Publication status

Published - 2012

Volume

7555

Publisher

Springer, United States, Germany

Book series

Book series name: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISSN: 0302-9743

ISBN (Print)

978-3-642-33586-0

Publication IDs

Scopus: 84866351393

Host publication title

Computational Logistics

Abstract

We solve an important problem for the liner shipping industry called the
Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem (LSFRP). The LSFRP poses a
large financial burden on liner shipping firms. During repositioning,
vessels are moved between services in a liner shipping network. Shippers
wish to reposition vessels as cheaply as possible without disrupting the
cargo flows of the network. The LSFRP is characterized by chains of
interacting activities with a multi-commodity flow over paths defined by
the activities chosen. Despite its great industrial importance, the LSFRP
has received little attention in the literature. We introduce a novel
mathematical model of the LSFRP with cargo flows based on a carefully
constructed graph and evaluate it on real world data from our industrial
collaborator.

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