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

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 shipping …

Benders decomposition uses a strategy of``learning from one's mistakes.''The aim of this
paper is to extend this strategy to a much larger class of problems. The key is to generalize …

Container transportation has become an important part of global transportation and it may
gain a new potential in the light of the Chinese One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, known …

As a typical system to reduce costs and improve efficiency, the liner shipping system has an
important role in economic globalization. In recent years, with the government's …

The rational distribution of fleet resources is an important way to improve the productivity of
maritime transport industry. With container vessels becoming increasingly large and the …

Previous studies on liner container shipping operations usually assume identical container
ships deployed in the same shipping route. However, in real operations, this assumption …

In recent years, the service capacity of coastal ports has failed to keep pace with the
increasing demand for ocean transportation, resulting in frequent congestion that adversely …

This paper mainly evaluates the previously published fleet planning researches which
primarily utilize operations research and computational intelligence based techniques. An …

This paper models and solves a fleet deployment and demand fulfillment problem for
container shipping liners with consideration of the potential overload risk of containers …