Simultaneous Optimization of the Liner Shipping Route and Ship Schedule Designs with Time Windows

This paper proposes to address the problem of the simultaneous optimization of the liner shipping route and ship schedule designs by incorporating port time windows. A mathematical programming model was developed to minimize the carrier’s total operating cost by simultaneously optimizing the port ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xi Jiang, Haijun Mao, Hao Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/3287973