A Study on the Design of the Marine Container Transportation Network : Around the East and the Southeast Asia

As for the marine container transportation, remarkable development such as a harbor is done. The growth of the Asian area is especially remarkable. To cope with this growth, the size of the container ship becomes large, and then a transportation network changes into Hub-Spokes type and so on. This paper proposes the design method of the marine container transportation network. Then, plying of the vessel, the number of vessels, and so on are optimized by this design. The proposal method gives it the solution of a network problem as a minimum cost problem by using mathematical programming. The validity of this design method is shown in this paper. Therefore, a design example targeting the Asian area is presented.