In recent years, reverse logistics (RL) has become a field of importance for all organizations
due to growing environmental concerns, legislation, corporate social responsibility and …

Multimodal transportation offers an advanced platform for more efficient, reliable, flexible,
and sustainable freight transportation. Planning such a complicated system provides …

This paper surveys the extant research in the field of ocean container transport. A wide
range of issues is discussed including strategic planning, tactical planning and operations …

We review research on ship routing and scheduling and related problems during the new
millennium and provide four basic models in this domain. The volume of research in this …

Reducing fuel consumption of ships against volatile fuel prices and greenhouse gas
emissions resulted from international ship** are the challenges that the industry faces …

This paper reviews studies from the past 30 years that use operations research methods to
tackle containership routing and scheduling problems at the strategic, tactical, and …

This paper first calibrates the bunker consumption–sailing speed relation for container ships
using historical operating data from a global liner ship** company. It proceeds to …

To mitigate climate change due to international ship**, the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) requires shipowners and ship technical managers to improve the energy …

The maritime industry is one of the greenest modes of transportation, taking care of almost
90% of the global trade. The maritime container business revolves around liner ship** …

The liner-ship** network design problem is to create a set of nonsimple cyclic sailing
routes for a designated fleet of container vessels that jointly transports multiple commodities …