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We solve an important problem for the liner shipping industry called the Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem (LSFRP). The LSFRP poses a large financial burden on liner shipping firms. During repositioning, vessels are moved between services in a liner shipping network. Shippers wish to reposition vessels as cheaply as possible without disrupting the cargo flows of the network. The LSFRP is characterized by chains of interacting activities with a multi-commodity flow over paths defined by the activities chosen. Despite its great industrial importance, the LSFRP has received little attention in the literature. We introduce a novel mathematical model of the LSFRP with cargo flows based on a carefully constructed graph and evaluate it on real world data from our industrial collaborator.
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Tierney, K., Jensen, R.M. (2012). The Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem with Cargo Flows. In: Hu, H., Shi, X., Stahlbock, R., Voß, S. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33587-7_1
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