Scheduling vessels and container-yard operations with conflicting objectives

Scheduling vessels and container-yard operations with conflicting objectives

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Article ID: iaor20091283
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 161
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 149
End Page Number: 170
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Journal: Annals of Operations Research
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: supply & supply chains
Abstract:

We consider the problem of coordinating the operations of two supply chain partners: a foreign shipping company and a domestic port. The two partners have conflicting business objectives, and the issue is to determine the optimal cycle time, by which the shipping company removes the empty containers from the domestic port, so that the joint profit of the two partners is maximized. The domestic port prefers a shorter cycle time to mitigate its empty container accumulation and land use problems, while the shipping company wishes a longer cycle time to save its expensive vessel capacities. We propose an iterative procedure to search for this optimal cycle time.

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