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Intergrated Container Shipping Service Route Design

Date：2015-10-19 From：

Title：Intergrated Container Shipping Service Route Design

Speaker：SONG Dongping

Time:：14:30-16:00,Oct. 20, 2015

Place：Room C, Building 3th.

Abstract:

This paper will first provide an overview of the container shipping sector. Then, it focuses on an integrated container shipping service route design problem. The objective of this problem is to minimise the total cost incurred from a liner shipping service route, including ship related costs, fuel consumption costs, port related costs, laden containers and empty container inventory-in-transition costs. A three-stage optimisation method is proposed to tackle the problem. By introducing the notions of topological structure and ship load factors, it simplifies the shipping route structure design sub-problem and the empty container repositioning sub-problem. The model takes advantage of the characteristics of the existing route structures and can solve the service route design problems effectively from the practical perspective. Case studies are presented to show efficiency and applicability of the proposed research methodology.

Bio:

SONG Dongping is a professor of Supply Chain Management in the Liverpool University Management School. Before joining Liverpool University, he studied and worked at Nankai University, Zhejiang University, Newcastle University, Imperial College and Plymouth University. His research interests include maritime logistics; container shipping; supply chain management; production planning and inventory control; offshore wind logistics. His research work has been published in the journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Transportation Research Part B/E/D, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Production Research. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is acting as an Associate Editor for International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, and International Journal of Inventory Research. He is in the Editorial Advisory Board for Transportation Research Part E, International Journal of Supply Chain and Inventory Management, and Logistics Research.

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