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- Title
Container packing problem with balance constraints.
- Authors
Moon, Ilkyeong; Nguyen, Thi
- Abstract
This paper presents a new hybrid algorithm that addresses current limitations of container packing problems (CPPs) to increase the efficiency of oceanic transport. The proposed algorithm considers not only the balance constraints, but also the trade-off between volume utilization and weight balance. We also present a mixed integer programming model which features upper and lower bounds for the three-dimensional CPP. The computational results show that our algorithm can efficiently and realistically help shippers make decisions between volume utilization and weight balance and thereby achieve a high rate of volume utilization.
- Subjects
CONTAINERS; PACK transportation; BALANCES (Weighing instruments); MATHEMATICAL programming; TRANSPORTATION; MIXED integer linear programming
- Publication
OR Spectrum, 2014, Vol 36, Issue 4, p837
- ISSN
0171-6468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00291-013-0356-1