A Nonlinear Goal Programming Model for Slot Chartering & Allocation under Containerized Liner Shipping Alliance

Author

Chen Ji-hong ; Zhen Hong

Author_Institution

Coll. of Transp. & Commun., Shanghai Maritime Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

502

Lastpage

505

Abstract

Shipping Alliance developed particularly rapidly these years. Alliance members can cooperate with each others in the form of slot chartering, to take the advantages of economies of scale and provide good services to enhance their competitiveness and obtain greater benefits. This paper will establish a nonlinear goal programming model applied to decision-making for slot chartering and allocation under containerized liner shipping alliance. The results showed that, slot chartering under shipping alliance has outstanding advantages for shipping companies to lower their system costs, offset route capacity, ensure the completion of freight tasks, and so on.

Keywords

decision making; economies of scale; nonlinear programming; ships; transportation; containerized liner shipping alliance; decision-making; economies of scale; nonlinear goal programming model; shipping companies; slot allocation; slot chartering; Communication system control; Companies; Containers; Costs; Decision making; Economies of scale; Educational institutions; Marine vehicles; Marketing and sales; Transportation; Nonlinear Goal Programming Model; Shipping Alliance; Slot Chartering & Allocation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Computer Control, 2009. ICACC '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACC.2009.35

Filename

4777393