Assignment of transit container bookings for a transit agency

Örnek A., Eliiyi D. T., Sargut Z., Öztürk C.

24th Mini EURO Conference on Continuous Optimization and Information-Based Technologies in the Financial Sector, MEC EurOPT 2010, İzmir, Turkey, 23 - 26 June 2010, pp.220-225, (Full Text) identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • City: İzmir
  • Country: Turkey
  • Page Numbers: pp.220-225
  • Keywords: Container assignment, Container terminal operations, Multi-objective optimization
  • Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus Affiliated: No

Abstract

Overseas containers sometimes cannot be directly shipped to their destinations, but first unloaded, temporarily stored and then loaded onto smaller vessels at interim ports to save cost and/or to transport them to their final destinations directly. The assignment of these transshipment containers to vessels necessitates several measures to be taken into account simultaneously. We develop a mathematical model that considers the assignment of such containers to different vessels while optimizing multiple objectives. We provide a numerical example and present our conclusions. © Izmir University of Economics, Turkey, 2010.