Guo, Yu; Yan, Ran; Wang, Shuaian - In: Journal of shipping and trade 6 (2021), pp. 1-10
In the liner shipping industry, if a shipper wants to transport its cargo by container ships, it first needs to contact … a carrier to book container slots based on the estimated transportation demand. However, one problem in the booking … address this issue, this study develops a Newsvendor model to find the optimal order quantity of container slots for the …