Combined maritime fleet deployment and inventory management with port visit flexibility in roll-on roll-off shipping

Dong, Bo, Christiansen, Marielle, Fagerholt, Kjetil and Bektas, Tolga ORCID: 0000-0003-0634-144X (2020) Combined maritime fleet deployment and inventory management with port visit flexibility in roll-on roll-off shipping TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW, 140. p. 101988. ISSN 1366-5545, 1878-5794

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Abstract

We consider a combined fleet deployment and inventory management problem in Roll-on Roll-off shipping. Along given trade routes there are ports with inventories that should be kept within their limits. Current planning practice is to visit all ports every time a trade route is serviced. We instead aim at determining the sailing routes of each voyage along the trade route, where some ports can be skipped on certain voyages. A novel mixed integer programming model is proposed and tested on realistic instances. The results indicate that substantial gains can be achieved from this more flexible way of planning.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Fleet deployment, Maritime inventory routing, Roll-on Roll-off shipping
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	26 May 2020 08:26
Last Modified:	23 May 2026 03:10
DOI:	10.1016/j.tre.2020.101988
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3088704
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