This article presents a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach for the process of hiring maritime offshore support vessels for the Brazilian company Petrobras. The usual and common approach of the company is to select the most economically advantageous vessel. This has important disadvantages,...

This article aims at providing a systematic tool for the selection of the most suitable maritime route for containerized cargoes between different sets of coupled-ports. Possible routes are compared using the Copeland method, data envelopment analysis and probabilistic composition. The variables...