Liner ship fleet deployment. The vessel size restriction problem. An application to the Panama Canal
(2015) IAME 2015 Conference — Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (24.August.2015)
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- The operation of a container liner shipping fleet over a set of defined routes, most of them crossing the Panama Canal is analysed. Due to the maximum beam of the canal locks, the capacity of the vessels crossing the canal is presently restricted to 5,000 teus. After the expansion process currently ongoing, it will reach 13,000 teus. An application is carried out, using a mixed integer linear programming model that defines a minimum cost objective function. In order to determine how changes in vessels size crossing the Canal will affect liner operations, the application provides information about liner minimum cost operation regarding vessels, cargo and ports related to Canal routes. The model assumes that cargo can be transhipped at any port and comprises four terms, two of them related to vessels and two related to shipped cargo. Keeping the demand fixed and using a minimum cost objective function, results indicate how number and type of deployed vessels will change after the expansion, as well as the flow into and out of ports of the route.
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Herrera Rodriguez, M., Agrell, P. J., Manrique, C., & Trujillo, L. (2015). Liner ship fleet deployment. The vessel size restriction problem. An application to the Panama Canal. IAME 2015 Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/171398