Including Containers with Dangerous Goods in the Cargo Mix Problem for Container Vessel Stowage

Abstract

The Cargo Mix Problem (CMP) chooses and distributes types of containers to load into bay subsections of a container vessel. In this paper, we extend existing Mixed Integer Programming models for the CMP by considering containers with dangerous goods. We show that our model can be optimally solved in reasonable time using standard software.

Keywords

• integer programming
• container stowage
• cargo mix problem
• dangerous goods