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Robust Airfreight forwarder shipment planning with integration and consolidation of shipments
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DOI:10.1080/17509653.2026.2640408.png)
Abstract
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Airfreight plays an increasingly vital role in global trade, particularly within complex supply chains and multimodal transport systems. Given the numerous uncertainties inherent in Airfreight Forwarder Shipment Planning (AFSP), a novel robust optimization-based planning approach is developed to construct shipment plans through integration and consolidation strategies, to reduce costs and improve overall transport efficiency. In particular, two robust optimization models are introduced: one based on an ellipsoidal uncertainty set and the other on a polyhedral uncertainty set, to handle uncertainties in AFSP. To solve medium- and large-scale instances efficiently, a Hybrid Genetic Tabu Search with Probabilistic Perturbation Algorithm (HGTP) is designed, incorporating a probability learning-based perturbation mechanism. The effectiveness of the two models under complex management environments and uncertain conditions is validated through real-world case analyses and simulation experiments. Their performance and applicability in AFSP are compared, and corresponding managerial insights are derived.
Keywords:
Airfreight forwarder shipment planning
integration and consolidation
robust optimization
ellipsoidal uncertainty set
polyhedral uncertainty set
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Journal
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2.6
Papers:
237
Citations:
739
