Allocation of empty containers between multi-ports

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.09.003

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	Allocation of empty containers between multi-ports
	Li, Jing-An ; Leung, Stephen C. H.; Wu, Yue ; Liu, Ke
	2007-10-01
发表期刊	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
ISSN	0377-2217
卷号	182 期号:1 页码:400-412
摘要	Owing to imbalances in international trade activities, shipping companies accumulate a large number of unnecessary empty containers in the import-dominant ports, whilst request a large number of empty containers in export-dominant ports. The logistics challenge to shipping companies is to better manage and control their containers, which consist of company-owned containers and]leased containers. The multi-port empty container allocation problem is concerned with the allocation of empty containers from supply ports to demand ports. In this paper, optimal pairs of critical policies, (U, D) for one port, which are importing empty containers up to U when the number of empty containers in the port is less than U, or exporting empty containers down to D when the number of empty containers is larger than D, doing nothing otherwise, are adapted to multi-port case so that decision-makers can make decisions about allocating the right amounts of empty containers to the right ports at the right time. This allocation problem has been formulated and the heuristic methods are designed according to that the average cost using (u, d) policy at one port is convex in u and d. Furthermore, the examples show that, using the heuristic algorithm, the result in the inland line case is quite close to the lower bound, even the distance is not so close in the global line case. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
关键词	containerization inventory heuristics
DOI	10.1016/j.ejor.2006.09.003
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Operations Research & Management Science
WOS类目	Management ; Operations Research & Management Science
WOS记录号	WOS:000246406000026
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
引用统计
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/4041
专题	应用数学研究所
通讯作者	Leung, Stephen C. H.
作者单位	1.City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Management Sci, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Syst Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China 3.Univ Southampton, Sch Management, Southampton SO9 5NH, Hants, England 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Math, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Jing-An,Leung, Stephen C. H.,Wu, Yue,et al. Allocation of empty containers between multi-ports[J]. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH,2007,182(1):400-412.
APA	Li, Jing-An,Leung, Stephen C. H.,Wu, Yue,&Liu, Ke.(2007).Allocation of empty containers between multi-ports.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH,182(1),400-412.
MLA	Li, Jing-An,et al."Allocation of empty containers between multi-ports".EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH 182.1(2007):400-412.