In this study, we mathematically model and empirically investigate the operational performance of container-vessel schedules under three management policies: the non-collaborative policy, the slot-sharing policy, and the total-sharing (the total collaboration) policy. A hypothesized shipping...

We study a variation of the packing-delivery problem, which involves K distinct products, a single capacitated truck, and a fixed sequence of customer locations to be visited. We show that the non-split version of the problem is strongly polynomial solvable. For the split delivery case, we...