Port of Tanjung Pelepas (own photo)
REALCAP (2016-2018)
Motivation: The purpose of this project is to derive accurate capacity models of container vessels.
Research objective and goals: Derive scalable (e.g., linear) capacity models from stowage models by factoring out positioning information.
Research activities: Use Fourier-Motzkin elimination to derive models automatically. Develop new linear models of stowage including overstowage and crane utilization.
Project Period: 2016-2018.
Funding: The project is funded by The Danish Maritime Fund. Budget DKK 1.2M.
Principal investigators: Associate Professor Rune Møller Jensen, ITU.
Researchers: Postdoc Mai Lise Ajspur (now at Nordea).
Partners: Maersk, Seago Line (now Sealand), and Odense Maritime Technology.
GREENSHIP (2014-2017)
Motivation: The objective of this research project is reduce CO2 emissions of container liner shipping.
Research objective and goals: Develop tools to optimizing containerized liner shipping, both through improved network design, taking vessel sharing agreements into account, and through better cargo mix, making it possible to fit more containers on board a vessel.
Research activities: ITU delivered work packages on cargomix fitting container vessels using linear models derived using projection and abstraction.
Project Period: 2014-2017.
Funding: The project is funded by The Danish Council for Strategic Research and EUDP. ITU receives DKK 1.5M of the total budget.
Principal investigators: Professor David Pisinger, DTU Management, Associate Professor Rune Møller Jensen, ITU, and Associate Professor Dario Pacino, DTU Management.
Researchers: Postdoc Mai Lise Ajspur (now at Nordea).
Partners: Maersk Line.
STOWAGE TEXTBOOK (2012-2018)
Motivation: Container vessels stowage planning is a central problem for the liner shipping industry. Nevertheless, the shipping industry and associated vendors and researchers still lack a comprehensive textbook describing the problem in theory and practice.
Research objective and goals: The project aims at writing and publishing such a textbook.
Research activities Background research of standards and rules as well as commercial tools for manual stowage. Writing book manuscript with publisher.
Project Period: 2012-2013.
Funding: The project is supported by The Danish Maritime Fund. ITU receives DKK 0.4M in external funding of a total budget for the project of DKK 0.6M.
Principal investigator: Associate Professor Rune Møller Jensen, ITU.
Researchers: Postdoc Dario Pacino (now Associate Professor at DTU).
Partners: Maersk Line and Weilbach.
ENERPLAN (2010-2013)
Motivation: During the last two decades globalization has caused the number of shipments of containerized goods to increase dramatically. Shipping is one of the most environmentally friendly modes of transportation, but container vessels burn fossil fuels and therefore contribute to CO2 emission.
Research objective and goals: The ENERPLAN research project (Energy Efficient Transportation Planning) will develop intelligent IT-based planning tools for the containerized transportation sector, reducing energy consumption and thus environmental impact.
Research activities The research project includes decision tools based on mathematical optimization for planning a route network such that a higher load factor can be achieved.
Project Period: 2009-2013.
Funding: ENERPLAN is supported by The Danish Council for Strategic Research. ITU receives DKK 2M in external funding. Total budget for the complete project including activities at partner is DKK 7M.
Principal investigators: Professor David Pisinger, DTU Management and Associate Professor Rune Møller Jensen, ITU.
Researchers: PostDoc Shahin Gelareh, PhD student Kevin Tierney (now Professor at University of Bielefeld), PhD student Berit Dangaard Brouer (now at Maersk).
Partners: Maersk Line and DTU Management.
BAYSTOW (2008-2012)
Motivation: Container vessels spent a large fraction of their time in ports. This is costly, not only in port fees, but also due to the reduction in the available sail time to the next port to call.
Research objective and goals: The BAYSTOW project aims at reducing the time that vessel must spent in ports by using optimization algorithms to produce stowage plans that can be executed fast.
Research activities The research project focuses on loading individual bays fast and includes algorithms to minimize the number of extra crane moves due to containers blocking for each other (overstow reduction).
Project Period: 2008-2011.
Funding: BAYSTOW is supported by The Danish Maritime Fund. ITU receives DKK 2M in external funding of a total budget for the project of DKK 4.5M .
Principal investigator: Associate Professor Rune Møller Jensen, ITU.
Researchers: PhD student Dario Pacino (now Associate Professor at DTU).
Partners: Maersk Line and DTU Management.
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