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Published in: Energy Systems 4/2017

23-12-2015 | Original Paper

The green vessel schedule design problem: consideration of emissions constraints

Authors: M. A. Dulebenets, M. M. Golias, S. Mishra

Published in: Energy Systems | Issue 4/2017

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Abstract

The fluctuating demand of international seaborne trade, overcapacity, and increasing attention to environmental issues force liner shipping companies to improve efficiency of their operations, while complying with the established emissions limitations. This paper proposes a mathematical model for the green vessel scheduling problem, imposing constraints on emissions produced by a vessel at each voyage leg of the liner shipping route. The original mixed integer non-linear mathematical model is linearized and solved efficiently using CPLEX. Numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate changes in the vessel schedule that a liner shipping company has to make for a given shipping route, when emissions constraints are imposed.
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Footnotes
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Set of handling rates contains indexes of available handling rates (i.e., if a terminal operator at port i offers two handling rates 75 TEUs/hr. and 50 TEUs/hr., then \(S_i =\{1,2\})\).
 
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This study considered the large size problem instances, where VSDPL had 1,889 variables and 5,273 equations, while GVSDPL had 1,940 variables and 5,374 equations.
 
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Metadata
Title
The green vessel schedule design problem: consideration of emissions constraints
Authors
M. A. Dulebenets
M. M. Golias
S. Mishra
Publication date
23-12-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Energy Systems / Issue 4/2017
Print ISSN: 1868-3967
Electronic ISSN: 1868-3975
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12667-015-0183-3

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