Scheduling shipments of bulk cargoes when multiple cargoes may be on board a vessel simultaneously is an especially complicated task. Most research on such bulk ship routing and scheduling problems has focused on solving a simplified version of the real problem, which we denote as the basic...

We review research on ship routing and scheduling and related problems during the new millennium and provide four basic models in this domain. The volume of research in this area about doubles every decade as does the number of research outlets. We have found over a hundred new refereed papers...