An Investigation into Effectiveness of Container Arrangements on Optimizing a Containership Stowage Plan

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Container is a standard in worldwide transportation method, which is capable of being moved by sea, road or rail with relative simplicity. Due to the continuously increasing container trade, many container terminals as well as liner shipping companies are presently frustrating to shorten the turnaround time of a ship for financial savings. Therefore, any methods to improve the containership stowage process would be significant. This paper examines the effectiveness of container arrangements in order to evaluate how to optimize the stowage plan, which was established at the present port and associated with the unloading plan at next port. The efficient of the ship stowage plan is evaluated by the minimum number of rehandled container required and the maximum value of ship stability obtained during to trip from the present port to the next port. The genetic algorithm is employed as a heuristic for the approximately optimized solutions and the validation of the proposed approach is performed with some computational experiments.
社団法人日本航海学会の論文
2008-09-25