The International Maritime Organization aims for net-zero carbon emissions in the maritime industry by 2050. Among various alternatives, route optimization holds an important place as it does not require any additional component-related costs. Especi...
Intelligent weather route optimization method was an essential guarantee for safe and efficient navigation of ships. In traditional methods, the multi-stage decision-making method was generally used to solve route dynamic optimization problems, in wh...
Multi-vessel formation shipping demonstrates significant potential for enhancing maritime transportation efficiency and economy. However, existing route planning systems inadequately address the unique challenges of formations, where traditional meth...
As one of the ship energy efficiency optimization measures with the most energy saving and emission reduction potential, ship speed optimization has been recommended by the International Maritime Organization. In ship speed optimization, considering...
The continuously intensified pursuit to reduce emissions related to human activity and the increased competition in maritime sector calls for sustainable and well-planned solutions to conform with environmental constraints and maximize profit, respec...
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) proposed to reduce the total CO2 emissions of the maritime sector by 50% by 2050, and strive to gradually achieve the zero-carbon target. Therefore, shipping companies need to consider environmental impac...
To address the challenges of carbon emission reduction in the global shipping industry and the requirements of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) rating, this paper takes China’s commuter ship...
This paper evaluates the effect of a large-capacity electrical energy storage, e.g., Li-ion battery, on optimal sailing routes, speeds, fuel choice, and emission abatement technology selection. Despite rapid cost reduction and performance improvement...
Ports and their affiliated shipping routes are fundamental to the maritime logistics system, crucial for global trade. However, they face risks from natural disasters and human-induced crises. Enhancing port resilience, the ability to quickly recover...
For the ship pipe routing design (SPRD) problem, previous studies have mainly employed bio-inspired algorithms such as multi-objective ant colony optimization (MOACO), non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II), and multi-objective particle...
In response to growing environmental concerns and regulatory pressures, reducing carbon emissions in maritime transport has become a priority. Shipping companies face the challenge of balancing profitability objectives with the imperative to minimize...
Effective route and speed decision-making can significantly reduce vessel operating costs and emissions. However, existing optimization methods developed for conventional fuel-powered vessels are inadequate for application to methanol dual-fuel ships...
Smart routing has emerged as a critical enabler of sustainable shipping, addressing the growing demand for energy-efficient, safe, and adaptive vessel navigation in both maritime and inland waterborne transport. This review examines the current lands...
To comply with the regulations of emission control areas (ECAs), most operators have to switch to low-sulfur fuels inside the ECAs. Besides, a low-carbon objective is essential for long-term environmental protection; thus, is regarded as important as...
With the continuous prosperity and development of the shipping industry, it is necessary and meaningful to plan a safe, green, and efficient route for ships sailing far away. In this study, a hybrid multicriteria ship route planning method based on i...
As the IMO and the EU strengthen carbon emission regulations, eco-friendly voyage planning is increasingly recognized by ship owners as one of the most important performance factors of the vessel fleet. The eco-friendly voyage planning aims to reduce...
Formulating effective typhoon avoidance routes is crucial for ensuring the safe navigation of ocean-going vessels. From a maritime safety perspective, this paper investigates ship route optimization under typhoon forecast uncertainty. Initially, the...
Maritime regulators are closely monitoring the progression of green shipping, and liner companies are seeking strategies to meet tough ship emission rules. To reduce the operating cost while conforming to the increasingly strict environmental regulat...
This research focuses on integrating seakeeping indices into the trajectory planning of a mother ship in order to minimize risks during UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) takeoff and landing in challenging sea conditions. By considering vessel dynamics an...
Due to the intensification of economic globalization and the impact of global warming, the development of methods to reduce shipping costs and reduce carbon emissions has become crucial. In this study, a multi-objective optimization algorithm was des...
Multi-objective optimization of a vessel route is considered of key importance when creating automatic navigation systems to ensure independent navigation in ice conditions. This is explained by the need to take into account not only the time or fuel...
In recent years, as intelligent ship-navigation technology has advanced, the challenge of accurately modeling and predicting the dynamic environment and motion status of ships has emerged as a prominent area of research. In response to the diverse ti...
The operation of any vessel includes risks, such as mechanical failure, collision, property loss, cargo loss, or damage. For modern container ships, safe navigation is challenging as the rate of innovation regarding design, speed profiles, and carryi...
Cargo (laden container) routing and empty container repositioning are crucial components in liner shipping, which are closely relevant. However, most existing works focus on cargo routing and empty container repositioning separately, which cannot opt...
The upcoming autonomous vessel voyage is promising future in the maritime sector. However, so far, the contemporary route decision making technologies rely on human intervention. Therefore, this manuscript proposes the two newly developed speed algor...
The paper proposes an innovative adaptation of the estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA), intended for multi-objective optimisation of a ship’s route in a non-stationary environment (tidal waters). The key elements of the proposed approach...
This work aims at defining in a probabilistic manner objectives and constraints typically considered in route optimization systems. Information about weather-related uncertainties is introduced by adopting ensemble forecast results. Classical reliabi...
This study investigated advancements in atmospheric forecasting by integrating real-time observational data into the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model through the WRF-Data Assimilation (WRF-DA) framework. By refining atmospheric models, we...
Sea transportation such as that by container ships has an essential role in the economy both locally and internationally. Ships are a major commodity in distributing goods over long distances due to their relatively low price compared to air shipping...
This paper provides a new adaptive weather routing model, based on the Dijkstra shortest path algorithm, aiming to select the optimal route that maximizes the ship performances in a seaway. The model is based on a set of ship motion-limiting criteria...
In order to tackle sulfur oxides (SOx) emissions from maritime activities, both local governmental bodies and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have implemented a range of regulations with the establishment of sulfur emission control area...
In the contemporary tramp shipping industry, route optimization and scheduling are directly linked to enhancements in operations, economics, and the environment, making them key factors for the effective management of maritime transportation. To enha...
This study examines the challenges related to the storage and distribution of cabin materials on board during the construction of cruise ships. The construction process of cruise ships involves the assembly of various cabin materials, which are tempo...
This study focuses on an integrated three-level multi-port liner ship vessel routing and scheduling optimization problem. Specifically, the three-level multi-port network consists of hub ports, feeder ports, and cargo source points, which provide the...
In fresh produce cold chain last-mile delivery, the highly dispersed customer base leads to exorbitant delivery costs, posing the greatest challenge for cold chain enterprises. Achieving a symmetrical balance between cost-efficiency, environmental su...
Delivery systems are ubiquitous in today’s economy. However, those systems usually operate through purpose-built vehicles, which are inefficient, expensive, and highly harmful to the environment. We propose an optimal route crowd-shipping (OR-C...
Accurate weather data are very important for the navigation of ships. However, due to the insufficient coverage of the maritime network, the high cost of satellite communication, and the limited bandwidth, it is difficult for ships to obtain high-res...
In recent years, increasing fuel prices, depressed market conditions and air pollution issues have brought huge challenges to the tramp shipping industry. This work investigates the tramp ship routing and scheduling problem considering ship speeds an...
The maritime industry remains a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this article, a systematic study has been performed on the alternative fuel emissions of large cargo ships under different route scenarios and propul...
This paper studies a hub-and-spoke shipping network of remote islands and integrates a maritime location inventory routing problem for a remote island shipping network considering emergency inventory. By determining a series of decisions, including t...
Pipe routing in ship design presents significant challenges because of its time-consuming nature and the need for considerable attention to detail. In recent years, the decreasing number of pipe designers has impacted the quality of pipe-routing desi...
In recent years, low energy consumption has become the common choice of economic development in the world. In order to control energy consumption, shipping line speed optimization has become strategically important. to reduce fuel consumption, this s...
With the increasingly strict regulations for the energy-saving and emission-reduction technology of ships, minimizing fuel cost and thus reducing the carbon intensity index (CII) is one of the most critical issues in the design and operation of merch...
To address the issue of intelligent ship route planning, a ship planning method based on the improved D* Lite algorithm is proposed. Firstly, a navigation environment grid map is constructed using the acquired meteorological and hydrological datasets...
With soaring oil prices worldwide, determining the most optimal routes for economical ship operation has become an important issue. Optimizing ship routes is economically important for ship operation, but it is also essential to meet the standards of...
There usually exist a few big customers at ports of near-sea container shipping routes who have preferences on the weekly ship arrival times due to their own production and sale schedules. Therefore, in practice, when designing ship schedules, carrie...
A great ellipse route (GER), as one of the fundamental routes for ocean voyages, directly influences the actual voyage distance and the complexity of vessel maneuvering through the location and number of its waypoints. Against the backdrop of global...
Ship weather routing has always been an important issue in the research field of navigation, and many scholars have been devoted to this research for a long time. To study the route strategies of different shipping companies, this paper proposes an i...
Facing sharp competition in the market for shipping companies, it is necessary to make reasonable and efficient decisions to optimize the container shipping line network so as to improve the shipping efficiency and reduce the transportation cost, as...
The Western Mediterranean basin is a busy route by Short Sea Shipping with an important route between Barcelona (Spain) and Genoa (Italy), where climatic patterns show similarities but vary during the year. One essential topic for Short Sea Shipping...
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