A Liner Shipping Network Design

Liner shipping service network design with empty container repositioning

Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review ◽

10.1016/j.tre.2011.02.004 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 47 (5) ◽

pp. 695-708 ◽

Cited By ~ 140

Author(s):

Qiang Meng ◽

Shuaian Wang

Keyword(s):

Network Design ◽

Liner Shipping ◽

Service Network ◽

Empty Container ◽

Service Network Design ◽

Empty Container Repositioning

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A Liner Shipping Network Design – Routing and Scheduling Impacted by Environmental Influences

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Network Optimization ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-21527-8_63 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 574-576 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Volker Windeck ◽

Hartmut Stadtler

Keyword(s):

Network Design ◽

Environmental Influences ◽

Liner Shipping ◽

Routing And Scheduling

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Reposition of empty containers of different life stages integrated with liner shipping network design

Maritime Policy & Management ◽

10.1080/03088839.2019.1657973 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 43-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shanhua Wu ◽

Yu Sun ◽

Feng Lian ◽

Zhongzhen Yang

Keyword(s):

Network Design ◽

Liner Shipping ◽

Life Stages ◽

Empty Containers

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Network Design for Shipping Service of Large-Scale Intermodal Liners

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.3141/2269-05 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2269 (1) ◽

pp. 42-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Qiang Meng ◽

Shuaian Wang ◽

Zhiyuan Liu

Keyword(s):

Network Design ◽

Large Scale ◽

Programming Model ◽

Transportation Network ◽

Liner Shipping ◽

Maritime Transportation ◽

Mixed Integer ◽

Hub And Spoke ◽

Shipping Company ◽

Proposed Model

A model was developed for network design of a shipping service for large-scale intermodal liners that captured essential practical issues, including consistency with current services, slot purchasing, inland and maritime transportation, multiple-type containers, and origin-to-destination transit time. The model used a liner shipping hub-and-spoke network to facilitate laden container routing from one port to another. Laden container routing in the inland transportation network was combined with the maritime network by defining a set of candidate export and import ports. Empty container flow is described on the basis of path flow and leg flow in the inland and maritime networks, respectively. The problem of network design for shipping service of an intermodal liner was formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming model. The proposed model was used to design the shipping services for a global liner shipping company.

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