The Liner Shipping Company Wants To Optimize Its Inland Transports: Deliver And Return Within Supply Chain Assignment, TCD, Ireland

The liner shipping company wants to optimize its inland transports. You are asked to look at an island in the pacific with 100 TEU arriving on the vessels and 60 TEU leaving on a vessel each week. You have been given data for one day of operations on which you are asked to find the optimal solution. From the port, there is a train that can transport containers to 3 inland container terminals. In the data the 4 container terminal locations named{ 0, 1, 4,6} are provided and 5 customer locations named{ {2,3,5,7,8 } are provided. The containers are never left at customers’ locations. Thus the MI (import) container is taken from a terminal and transported to a customer to be emptied and the empty container is returned to a terminal. OR a full container is taken from a terminal and transported to a customer to be emptied and the empty container is transported to an export customer where it is filled and transported to the required terminal. The day of operation provided contains 11 orders where 6 are imports and 5 are exports. A matrix with the travel cost between all provided locations is given