Iris, Cagatay 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5422-354X, Christensen, Jonas, Pacino, Dario and Ropke, Stefan
(2018)
Flexible ship loading problem with transfer vehicle assignment and scheduling.
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological: an international journal, 111 (C).
pp. 113-134.
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Abstract
This paper presents the flexible containership loading problem for seaport container terminals. The integrated management of loading operations, planning of the transport vehicles to use and their scheduling is what we define as the Flexible Ship Loading Problem (FSLP). The flexibility comes from a cooperative agreement between the terminal operator and the liner shipping company, specifying that the terminal has the right to decide which specific container to load for each slot obeying the class-based stowage plan received from the liner. We formulate a mathematical model for the problem. Then we present various modelling enhancements and a mathematical model to obtain strong lower bounds. We also propose a heuristic algorithm to solve the problem. It is shown that enhancements improve the performance of formulation significantly, and the heuristic efficiently generates high-quality solutions. Results also point out that substantial cost savings can be achieved by integrating the ship loading operations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ship loading, Container terminals, Stowage planning, Transport operations in yard, Mega vessels, Shipping lines and port collaboration |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2019 16:51 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:12 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.trb.2018.03.009 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3067112 |
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