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This paper describes a stochastic ship routing problem with inventory management. The problem involves finding a set of least cost routes for a fleet of ships transporting a single commodity when the demand for the commodity is uncertain. Storage at supply and consumption ports is limited and inventory levels are monitored in the model. Consumer demands are at a constant rate within each time period in the deterministic problem, and in the stochastic problem, the demand rate for a period is not known until the beginning of that period. The demand situation in each time period can be described by a scenario tree with corresponding probabilities.

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This paper describes a stochastic ship routing problem with inventorymanagement. The problem involves finding a set of least cost routes fora fleet of ships transporting a single commodity when the demand for thecommodity is uncertain. Storage at supply and consumption ports is limitedand inventory levels are monitored in the model. Consumer demands are ata constant rate within each time period in the deterministic problem, and inthe stochastic problem, the demand rate for a period is not known until thebeginning of that period. The demand situation in each time period can bedescribed by a scenario tree with corresponding probabilities.