ABSTRACT
Maritime transportation is very important in the world economy. The types of operations in the shipping market are distinguished in tramp, industrial and liner shipping. This chapter focuses on container liner shipping and discusses decision problems in the container liner shipping market. The decision problems can be distinguished in three different planning levels: strategic, tactical and operational. The chapter describes terminal operations aspects which directly affect shipping, namely, berth scheduling, crane allocation and container stacking. It also describes the fleet size and mix and market trade selection problem on the strategic level; network design, pricing and empty container repositioning on the tactical level; and cargo routing, disruption management, revenue management and stowage planning on the operational planning level. The chapter also discusses geographical bottlenecks and provides a case study of Indonesia to explain some of the liner shipping problems in more detail.
