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

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  • Dong, Bo
  • Christiansen, Marielle
  • Fagerholt, Kjetil
  • Bektaş, Tolga

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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.

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  • Dong, Bo & Christiansen, Marielle & Fagerholt, Kjetil & Bektaş, Tolga, 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, Elsevier, vol. 140(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transe:v:140:y:2020:i:c:s1366554520306396
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.101988
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