Liner shipping plays an important role in international shipping. This article systematically
reviews studies regarding liner shipping alliance management from three decision-making …

In horizontal collaborations, carriers form coalitions in order to perform parts of their logistics
operations jointly. By exchanging transportation requests among each other, they can …

Horizontal collaboration has been considered as effective practice for sustainable logistics
and freight transport and it has gained increased attention in recent years. This paper aims …

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 …

Catastrophic incidents can significantly disrupt supply chains, but most of these disruptions
remain localized. It was not until the onset of COVID-19 that a disruption in our lifetimes …

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 …

Collaboration in transportation between two or more agents is becoming an important
approach to find efficient solutions or plans. Efficiency can be measured in, for example …

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 …

Inverse optimization describes a process that is the “reverse” of traditional mathematical
optimization. Unlike traditional optimization, which seeks to compute optimal decisions given …

We investigate two competing carriers' incentives of horizontal alliance and values of vertical
cooperation in a one-to-two shipping service competition model, where two carriers may …