Theresearch On Ship Scheduling Optimization For Container Feeder Of P Shipping Company In Pearl River Delta Region

In recent years, with the growth of international trade and the development of the shipping techniques, more and more shipping enterprises is now taking advantage of the container ships to reduce operation costs, and the good ship scheduling can reduce the fleet size so that it could reduce the operation costs greatly; therefore it has a higher demand for the feeder line shipping scheduling which will restrict the efficiency and quality of feeder line container ships transportation.Firstly, the paper reviews the status and history of the feeder line container shipping and introduce the related theories of ship scheduling. Then, it gives a brief introduction of the background and business development of P shipping company, through literate study and lots of interview investigation, the author analyzed the operating state and characteristics of container feeder transport of P company, and then pointed out the main problems of feeder line shipping scheduling of P company, and based on the study, it proposed the ship scheduling optimization model for PRD container feeder shipping of P company to solve the existing problems. What’s more, the author cited and adduced the concept of voyage cluster so that it could optimize the voyage scheduling for PRD container feeder lines, and a classic two-phase algorithm model was applied in the real case. For shipping enterprises, the ship scheduling has a crucial influence on the economic benefits of transport fleet. Up to now, the scheduling practice has been completing by the shipping operators with their subjective experience as that it may effect the scheduling in the work. Therefore, it is quite important for the PRD feeder companies to scheduling the ships in a scientific way.The optimal shipping scheduling model can be better applied to the real complex and changing situation. Furthermore, the paper illustrated the general ideas of the establishment of the ship scheduling system in that with help of the system,the operators can release themselves from the daily routine labor work, and it also can help the shipping company to control the ship operation costs efficiently and it can increase the economic benefits greatly. Moreover, it is quite significant for the development of shipping schdualing optimization for the shipping industry.