With the closure of a ship journey with multiple port loading/unloading activities, the operation department schedules the fueling planning. When the ship consumes 100 tonnes per day in an average 300$/ton price and the oil prices differ significantly from port to port, it is obvious that a good schedule can lead to economic benefits.

The safety team of a shipping company has to evaluate alternative suggestions for improving company’s safety policy. The evaluators’ knowledge and experience is determined by the head of the safety department with numbers on a 1:100 scale.

Analysis regarding the MCA based problem of scrubber selection

Given crew appraisal schema and the evaluation for each criteria and seafarer, a preference order from an expert for a sample of seafarers (<10) find the criteria weights and formulate the total performance score

In the crew debriefing, the grades of four officers in two skills are listed in the following matrix-1. The requested solution is to rank the crew based on a list of grades.

Maximize the net profit/day based on cargo mix optimization subject to several hard constraints. Cargoes, voyage, ship data and the value of variables such as lay can terms, idle days cost, fuel consumption cost (foc), foc versus speed diagram are given.

Assign officers’ quadruplets (j master, k chief engineer, l chief officer, m second engineer) to I vessel to minimize the total penalty.

A liner carrier company with a fleet of containerships (either owned or chartered) should plan the vessels allocation in existing services with the objective to maximize the long-term fleet wide profit.

Request for quotation for a requisition with n items is sent to s suppliers. Suppliers come back with their offers with the corresponding value. Additionally, they offer a large volume discount if the order is more than a given threshold.

Given a two-dimensional table (Effective Machine Horse Power - EHP, Speed Through Water - STW) from recorded data estimate the EHP for given STW and the confidence level of your estimation find the optimal STW (speed through water).

Given the number of consecutive voyages #v, the number of subjects #s and for each s of them the alternative next options so and the corresponding next Time Charter Equivalent (TCE) in order to find optimal decision and the assigned speed for each voyage to maximize the total profit.

Ship-breaking or ship demolition is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.

Emission control system, in automobiles, means employed to limit the discharge of noxious gases from the internal-combustion engine and other components.