Operations Management

Marine Transportation and Logistics

AMAN DUBE
QA MBA , 4

Indian Maritime

India is the 20th largest maritime country in the

world.
About 95% of the countrys trade by volume is
moved through maritime transport.
The Indian peninsula, situated in the Indian Ocean,
is also strategically located between the Atlantic
Ocean in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the east
and 12 major ports carrying 75% of port traffic
and 148 operable minor and intermediate ports

Logistics and transportation

Management

Time precedence-based
formulation

MILP mathematical

To determine the assignment of cargos to ships and

define the optimal route that each ship should follow

to maximize its profit.
The MILP-based model is then combined with an
iterative algorithm in order to tackle large-scale
problems involving a large numbers of ships, ports,
and cargos.

The following notations are

used in the proposed MILPbased formulation:
L (cargos);
S (ships)
P (ports)
TTVs (total travel time for
ship s)
tccs (time-charter cost per
unit time of ship s)
LPp (cargos loaded in port
p)
srl (revenue for cargo l)
fcs (cost of fuel per unit
distance for ship s);

pcp,s (port cost for ship s at

port p)
vmaxs (total carrying capacity
of ship s in tonnes
TTDs (total distance travelled
by ship s)
Xp,s (binary variable denoting
that ship s visits port p).
Objective: To maximize Profit

Transportation Model

The following example can be used to demonstrate the

formulation of the transportation model. Wheat is
harvested in the Midwest and stored in grain elevators in
three different citiesKansas City, Omaha, and Des
Moines.
These grain elevators supply three flour mills, located in
Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.
These costs are shown in the following table. For
example, the cost of shipping one ton of wheat from the
grain elevator at Omaha to the mill at Chicago is $7.

Northwest Corner Method

Management of Oil Spills:

Aerial Surveillance and Monitoring
Protective Booming
Sand sieving

VMS

Voyage Schedule
VMS (Vessel Monitoring
System)
Voyage Report (Noon /
Arrival / Departure)
Automatic Abstract Log
Function
Analysis of Operation
Performance,
ROB,
Voyage Hour
Port Information

CASE-Capsize during loading

In
US,
while
loading
3000gross tons, Ship capsized
and sank alongside the dock
Observation Error in
calculating vessels stability
and officer failed to make
proper
allowance
while
calculating vessels center of
gravity
Root cause Error in stability
calculation