Abstract

This paper introduces and studies a real in-port ship routing and scheduling problem faced by chemical shipping companies. We show that this problem can be modeled as a Traveling Salesman Problem with Pickups and Deliveries, Time Windows and Draft Limits (TSPPD-TWDL). We propose a mathematical formulation for the TSPPD-TWDL and suggest a solution method based on forward dynamic programming (DP) to solve the problem. A set of label extension rules are also proposed to accelerate and enhance the performance of the algorithm. Computational studies show that the label extension rules are essential to the DP-algorithm, and the proposed solution method is able to solve real-sized in-port routing and scheduling problems in chemical shipping efficiently.

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