Sailing Speed Optimization for Container Ships in a Liner Shipping Network

This paper first calibrates the bunker consumption – sailing speed relation for container ships using historical operating data from a global liner shipping company. It proceeds to investigate the optimal sailing speed of container ships on each leg of each ship route in a liner shipping network, while considering transshipment and container routing. This problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model. In view of the convexity, non-negativity, and univariate properties of the bunker consumption function, an efficient outer-approximation method is proposed to obtain an ε-optimal solution with a predetermined optimality tolerance level ε. The proposed model and algorithm is applied to a real case study for a global liner shipping company.

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  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366554511001554
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier
• Authors:
  • Wang, Shuaian
  • Meng, Qiang
• Publication Date: 2012-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Illustrations; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 701-714
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1366-5545
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Containerships; Liner shipping; Mathematical models; Nonlinear programming; Numerical analysis; Operating speed; Traffic speed measurement
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01368166
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 2012 10:52AM