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Two Approaches to Scheduling Container Ships with an Application to the North Atlantic Route

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The development of an interactive computer program and a heuristic optimising model for scheduling container ships on the North Atlantic is described. The constraints and multiple objective criteria governing these schedules are discussed and sample results of both approaches given.

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  1. Department of Computational and Statistical Science, Liverpool University,

    T. B. Boffey, E. D. Edmond, A. I. Hinxman & C. J. Pursglove

  2. Now at Edinburgh Regional Computer Centre, Edinburgh

    A. I. Hinxman

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Boffey, T., Edmond, E., Hinxman, A. et al. Two Approaches to Scheduling Container Ships with an Application to the North Atlantic Route. J Oper Res Soc 30, 413–425 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1979.101

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