Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The
traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system …

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 …

The objective of this paper is to review the current status of ship routing and scheduling. We
focus on literature published during the last decade. Because routing and scheduling …

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) has been addressed in many research papers. Only a
few of them take time-dependent travel speeds into consideration. Moreover, most research …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses various aspects of maritime transportation
operations and presents associated decision-making problems and models with an …

Acommon problem faced by carriers in liner ship** is the design of their service network.
Given a set of demands to be transported and a set of ports, a carrier wants to design service …

The purpose of this paper is to describe industrial aspects of combined fleet composition
and routing in maritime and road-based transportation, and to present the current status of …

The grim ship** emission situation and stringent environmental regulations are key
drivers for the shift from conventional vessels to all-electric ships (AESs). Currently …

This paper addresses the design of container liner ship** service networks by explicitly
taking into account empty container repositioning. Two key and interrelated issues, those of …

This paper proposes a liner ship** service network design problem with combined hub-
and-spoke and multi-port-calling operations and empty container repositioning. It first …