Research Article

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

Table 3

Summary of results of instances of 40 contracts.

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

405314013.85621.555.00
4056150042382.508.11
405151500719.403442.587.49
407315008.66033.936.27
40761500447.530137.137.38
4071512301870.860645.537.76