A network flow based method for the distribution of empty containers

  • Authors:

  • Brenda Cheang;Andrew Lim

  • Affiliations:

  • IOPT, No. 5, Jalan Besar, #03-02, Ong Ban Hong Leong Building, 208785, Singapore.;Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, 117543, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Given the imbalances of an international shipping company's empty containers in ports all over the world, we study the problem of the dynamic distribution of empty containers with and without third party leasing from another company and develop a decision support system to solve the empty container distribution problem.