The Ship Routing and Freight Assignment Problem for the Daily Frequency Operation of Maritime Liner Shipping

Abstract

To cope with excess capacity and improve service quality maritime international liner carriers have recently adopted a new operational model known as daily frequency In this new model carriers provide daily pickup and delivery service to customers at major ports along the Pacific Rim We investigate the ship routing and freight assignment problem for daily frequency operation of liner shipping A solution procedure that incorporates a Lagrangian relaxation technique and local search was proposed The numerical results show that Shanghai Hong Kong and Singaporeare ports that are ideal for carriers in establishing daily frequency operations along the Pacific Rim

Date of Award	2015 Sept 6
Original language	English
Supervisor	Dung-Ying Lin (Supervisor)