OR63: Maritime Shipping

The Maritime Shipping stream focusses on ship scheduling, routing, speed optimisation, and links to ship (re)design in international shipping, in all sectors.

Both theoretically focused as application-oriented topics are welcome, in all sectors, including bulk, tankers, and container shipping, as well as in tramp shipping and line operations. We are not restricted by methodology.

We are interested in academic or practical work highlighting novel aspects of the existing body of knowledge on shipping decisions, as well as contributions that focus on how emerging exogeneous trends could potentially affect the decision making. This includes, but is not limited to: new trends in freight markets (including contracts), new regulations and performance metrics (including environmental), new ship design (including retrofitting), new fuels, or new supporting infrastructure (including port infrastructure, digital technologies).

We're now looking for OR professionals, data scientists, professors, researchers, analysts, engineers, etc., to present at this event. Submit your 300-word presentation summary on maritime shipping by the 11th of June to join our expert OR63 speakers!

We're now looking for OR professionals, data scientists, professors, researchers, analysts, engineers, etc., to present at this event. Submit your 300-word presentation summary on Maritime Shipping by the now extended deadline of the 25th of June to join our expert OR63 speakers!

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Contributions from either academics, the industry or the public sector are welcome!

We are looking for talks in (but not limited to) the following areas:

• qualitative talks on trends affecting shipping decisions
• quantitative methods on scheduling, routing, speeds, exact or heuristic approaches
• deterministic or stochastic decision environments
• optimisation from different perspectives, e.g. ship owners, shippers, ports
• competitive or cooperative situations, game theory
• impact of new environmental regulations
• impact from freight markets or contracts (time charters, spot market, CoA,…)
• impact of new fuel and new ship designs
• links to other areas of decision making (economics, finance, risk and insurance, safety, …)

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Meet the stream organisers

If you have any questions, please contact one of the stream organisers below using their details listed. 

Patrick Beullens, 
University of Southampton
[email protected]