In recent years, the world economic situation and container shipping industry has been fluctuated drastically, which has complicated the liner shipping companies＇ operation. The conventional issue of overcapacity due...In recent years, the world economic situation and container shipping industry has been fluctuated drastically, which has complicated the liner shipping companies＇ operation. The conventional issue of overcapacity due to the ＂equipment battle＂, and the destructive competition have further stimulated the operating intricacy within the container sector. That would be interesting to explore the chartering strategies of CMA CGM （Compagnie Maritime d＇Affretement Compagnie Generale Maritime） in such a volatile market as any capacity adjustment dictates a line＇s profit line. Nevertheless, the usefulness of ship chartering is not only confined to the operational level but also the strategic level. Throughout the analysis of CMA CGM＇s fleet trend, fleet deployment as well as chartering activities, it can illustrate the above concepts and observe a little bit further about the strategic movement of CMA CGM.展开更多
This paper studied a tactical liner shipping schedule design issue under sail and port time uncertainties,which is the determination of the planned arrival time at each port call as well as the punctuality rate and nu...This paper studied a tactical liner shipping schedule design issue under sail and port time uncertainties,which is the determination of the planned arrival time at each port call as well as the punctuality rate and number of assigned ship on the route.A number of studies have tried to introduce the operational speed adjustment measure into this tactical schedule design issue,to alleviate the discrepancies between designed schedule and maritime practice.On the one hand,weather conditions can lead to speed loss phenomenon of ships,which may result in the failure of ships’punctual arrivals.On the other hand,improving the ability of speed adjustment can decrease the late-arrival compensation,but increase the fuel consumption cost.Then,we formulated a machine learning-based liner shipping schedule design model aiming at above-mentioned two limitations on speed adjustment measure.And a machine learning-based approach has been designed,where the speed adjustment simulation,the neural network training and the reinforcement learning were included.Numerical experiments were conducted to validate our results and derive managerial insights,and then the applicability of machine learning method in shipping optimization issue has been confirmed.展开更多
The plans for the Maritime Silk Road affect the existing liner services.The purpose of this paper is to quantify using the terms of network theory the impact of these plans and to project the effects on the fleet,util...The plans for the Maritime Silk Road affect the existing liner services.The purpose of this paper is to quantify using the terms of network theory the impact of these plans and to project the effects on the fleet,utilization,port throughput,and carbon footprint.The analysis is based on publicly available information and reasonable fleet deployment assumptions.It also considers current and alternative routing schedules from Shanghai to Europe.The impact of existing and expected emission control areas(ECAs)along the port chains is also considered.展开更多
文摘In recent years, the world economic situation and container shipping industry has been fluctuated drastically, which has complicated the liner shipping companies＇ operation. The conventional issue of overcapacity due to the ＂equipment battle＂, and the destructive competition have further stimulated the operating intricacy within the container sector. That would be interesting to explore the chartering strategies of CMA CGM （Compagnie Maritime d＇Affretement Compagnie Generale Maritime） in such a volatile market as any capacity adjustment dictates a line＇s profit line. Nevertheless, the usefulness of ship chartering is not only confined to the operational level but also the strategic level. Throughout the analysis of CMA CGM＇s fleet trend, fleet deployment as well as chartering activities, it can illustrate the above concepts and observe a little bit further about the strategic movement of CMA CGM.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.71572022 and 61473053)the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.18VHQ005)。
文摘This paper studied a tactical liner shipping schedule design issue under sail and port time uncertainties,which is the determination of the planned arrival time at each port call as well as the punctuality rate and number of assigned ship on the route.A number of studies have tried to introduce the operational speed adjustment measure into this tactical schedule design issue,to alleviate the discrepancies between designed schedule and maritime practice.On the one hand,weather conditions can lead to speed loss phenomenon of ships,which may result in the failure of ships’punctual arrivals.On the other hand,improving the ability of speed adjustment can decrease the late-arrival compensation,but increase the fuel consumption cost.Then,we formulated a machine learning-based liner shipping schedule design model aiming at above-mentioned two limitations on speed adjustment measure.And a machine learning-based approach has been designed,where the speed adjustment simulation,the neural network training and the reinforcement learning were included.Numerical experiments were conducted to validate our results and derive managerial insights,and then the applicability of machine learning method in shipping optimization issue has been confirmed.
文摘The plans for the Maritime Silk Road affect the existing liner services.The purpose of this paper is to quantify using the terms of network theory the impact of these plans and to project the effects on the fleet,utilization,port throughput,and carbon footprint.The analysis is based on publicly available information and reasonable fleet deployment assumptions.It also considers current and alternative routing schedules from Shanghai to Europe.The impact of existing and expected emission control areas(ECAs)along the port chains is also considered.
