Container ships must carefully plan how to stack shipping containers in their holds to balance weight and safely transport goods. Researchers at an Escola Naval school in Portugal developed a mathematical model and algorithm to help shipping companies optimize container arrangements on ships engaged in short-distance coastal routes, reducing costs and improving efficiency of these operations. The new approach formulates the container stowage problem as a combinatorial optimization task and solves it to provide suitable container placements that meet operational and safety requirements.
Container ships must carefully plan how to stack shipping containers in their holds to balance weight and safely transport goods. Researchers at an Escola Naval school in Portugal developed a mathematical model and algorithm to help shipping companies optimize container arrangements on ships engaged in short-distance coastal routes, reducing costs and improving efficiency of these operations. The new approach formulates the container stowage problem as a combinatorial optimization task and solves it to provide suitable container placements that meet operational and safety requirements.
Container ships must carefully plan how to stack shipping containers in their holds to balance weight and safely transport goods. Researchers at an Escola Naval school in Portugal developed a mathematical model and algorithm to help shipping companies optimize container arrangements on ships engaged in short-distance coastal routes, reducing costs and improving efficiency of these operations. The new approach formulates the container stowage problem as a combinatorial optimization task and solves it to provide suitable container placements that meet operational and safety requirements.