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Transportation Planning and Inventory Management in the LNG Supply Chain

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In this chapter, the LNG supply chain is introduced, and two planning problems related to the transportation planning and inventory management within the chain are presented. The two problems have different characteristics and reflect the planning situations for a producer and a vertically integrated company, respectively. Both problems are formulated as mixed integer programs, and possible solution methods are briefly discussed.

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  • Planning Horizon
  • Inventory Level
  • Inventory Management
  • Spot Market
  • Port Call

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This work was partly supported by the OPTIMAR and DOMinant projects funded by the Research Council of Norway.

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  1. Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gløshaugen, Alfred Getz vei 3, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Henrik Andersson, Marielle Christiansen & Kjetil Fagerholt

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  1. Business Administration, Department of Science and Management Sci, Norwegian School of Economics and, Helleveien 30, Bergen, 5045, Norway

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Andersson, H., Christiansen, M., Fagerholt, K. (2010). Transportation Planning and Inventory Management in the LNG Supply Chain. In: Bjørndal, E., Bjørndal, M., Pardalos, P., Rönnqvist, M. (eds) Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12067-1_24

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