A Heuristic Approach for the Containership Stowage Problem in Multiple Port-of-call Route

Abstract

The efficiency of a container transport system primarily depends on the ship scheduling, which is regarded as a complex dynamic application, Therefore, this paper is concerned to ship stowage problem while satisfying the ship safety in her voyage at a number of ports-oficall, which obviously deterrnines the economic perfbrmance of the liner shipping companies. When the ship goes te multiple ports-oflcall, the stowage problem has been considered at each port in her routine. The preblem is forrnulated as a mixed integer programming and a heuristic is developed to solye it,