Study Of Liner Shipping Arrangement Problem

Following the mature of containership industry, facing the intense competition of international shipping market and the full open of national shipping market, how to use high technology such as computation to improve liner fleet deployment level, make good use of resource arrangement, decrease deployment cost and increase the competition aptitude, has become the most important problem for shipping enterprises.This dissertation researches and analyses the basic characters of liner routes and the difference from tramp shipping schedule. After analyzing those exist related models and theories, considering the really management situation of national container shipping company , author uses the methods of optimization to built the model of liner project one in order to solve the problem of liner fleet routes schedule. There are advantages and disadvantages of the model. Making use of VB program to solve the model. After author went to the COSCO container company and got enough vessel datas, we get the really example of model in order to change the lack of liner scheduling research.