Supply chain network design aims to optimize strategic decisions such as facility location decisions. These decisions have a major impact on the supply chain, but also on the financial value of the company. However, financial considerations are often omitted from facility location mathematical...

The multi-commodity network flow problem is an important sub-problem in several heuristics and exact methods for designing route networks for container ships. The sub-problem decides how cargoes should be transported through the network provided by shipping routes. This paper studies the...

In this research, two crucial optimization problems of berth allocation and yard assignment in the context of bulk ports are studied. We discuss how these problems are interrelated and can be combined and solved as a single large scale optimization problem. More importantly we highlight the...