Research Article

A Heuristic Procedure for a Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Variable Speed and Discretized Time Windows

Table 2

Summary of results of instances of 30 contracts.

Instance CPLEXHeuristic
ContractsShipsNodes per windowOptimum foundOnly feasible solution No solution Average time (sec)Solution not foundAverage time (sec)GAP
O.F. (%) average

30431302134.804.79
304613024.84215.925.36
304151302171.84293.155.53
305315001.1307.064.34
3056150012.73026.535.49
305151500140.600151.405.49