Maritime transportation is preferred over other transportation forms for trade and has seen a significant increase worldwide. One of the problems that often occur in maritime transportation is the high cost because vessels' availability and capacity will always be the same while the demand tends...

Efficient solid waste management is one of the most relevant issues for urban communities. With regard to the service type of household waste collection, there are two approaches in practice: When collecting household waste via a door-to-door system, the collection vehicles drive down all the...

This paper reviews the up-to-date theoretical, empirical, and experimental literature related to the trading venue choice in the context of the fragmented equity markets. We provide a brief background on the history of trading fragmentation in the equity market and its determinants. We discuss...

Cargo time windows have been discussed in the shipping literature in several ways and within several contexts. One way considers the hard time windows, where a fixed date is assigned to both the open and close laycan for the cargo loading and discharging ports. According to this way, the cargo...

In the liner shipping industry, if a shipper wants to transport its cargo by container ships, it first needs to contact a carrier to book container slots based on the estimated transportation demand. However, one problem in the booking process is that the actual demand is uncertain, resulting in...

This paper takes up a recently published model for collaborative vehicle routing, where shared customers expect shipments from more than one carrier. It is the purpose of the model to decide whether the demands of such a customer are served through individual visits of the involved carriers or...