Abstract:
The major mode for international cargo transportation is container shipping. Because there are many container liners in the market, the competition is often fierce. Revenue management, which aims to maximize the liner’s revenue based on optimal allocation of container slots, is an appropriate tool for container liners. The container slot allocation problem asks how carriers should allocate the available container slots to cargo containers from different origin-destination pairs efficiently to maximize the total revenue for the network. The objective of this paper is to propose a new modeling approach for the container slot allocation problem using key-path variables. Slot capacity of vessel, characteristics of vessel, cargo demands, and empty container positioning are considered in this model. Then take the new model to manage in reservation system by bid price method. The results shown this model can reduction in resource and solve time. And this model can manage booking control in reservation system. But revenue from booking control simulation and allocation model quite different.