Stowage Planning in Multiple Ports with Shifting Fee Minimization
Joint Authors
Zheng, Feifeng
Liu, Ming
Zhang, E.
Mei, Qihuang
Source
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-02-01
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper studies the problem of stowage planning within a vessel bay in a multiple port transportation route, aiming at minimizing the total container shifting fee.
Since the access to containers is in the top-to-bottom order for each stack, reshuffle operations occur when a target container to be unloaded at its destination port is not stowed on the top of a stack at the time.
Each container shift via a quay crane induces one unit of shifting fee that depends on the charge policy of the local container port.
Previous studies assume that each container shift consumes a uniform cost in all ports and thus focus on minimizing the total number of shifts or the turnaround time of the vessel.
Motivated by the observation that different ports are of nonuniform fee for each container shift, we propose a mixed integer programming (MIP) model for the problem to produce an optimal stowage planning with minimum total shifting fee in this work.
Moreover, as the considered problem is NP-hard due to the NP-hardness of its counterpart with uniform unit shifting fee, we propose an improved genetic algorithm to solve the problem.
The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated via numerical experiments.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zhang, E.& Mei, Qihuang& Liu, Ming& Zheng, Feifeng. 2018. Stowage Planning in Multiple Ports with Shifting Fee Minimization. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-9.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zhang, E.…[et al.]. Stowage Planning in Multiple Ports with Shifting Fee Minimization. Scientific Programming No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-9.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Zhang, E.& Mei, Qihuang& Liu, Ming& Zheng, Feifeng. Stowage Planning in Multiple Ports with Shifting Fee Minimization. Scientific Programming. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214676
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214676