Networks and Logistics in Shipping

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,3, Hamburg School of Business Administration gGmbH (Maritime School), course: Shipping: Networks and Logistics, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the value of an optimized liner-operating transshipment formulation for real world applications. In this context the impact of constraints in the optimum flow solutions and the impact of internal and external competition on the total costs will be identified and discussed.