Exploring the future of shipping
`For researchers to make a difference, we need to stay connected to the challenges the industry is facing in the real world´, Professor Haiying Jia says.
Shipping, Transport and logistics article archive
Expert Committee on Gardermoen's Need for a Third Runway
NHH Professor Siri Pettersen Strandenes chaired the committee that presented its report today.
CSL Participates at the International Association of Maritime Economist Conference in Valencia and starts counting to host next year's conference
On the sunny city of Valencia in Spain, members of the Centre of Shipping and Logistics (CSL) had the opportunity to participate and present their research findings at the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) 2024 Conference.
New article by Jia and Azevedo
The article "Green premium and the role of financial investors in sustainable investment in container shipping" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
Public Planning of freight transport in logistically complicated small cities
On Friday 30 August 2024 Cosku Can Orhan will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
New article by Jia
The article "Navigating uncertainty: A dynamic Bayesian network-based risk assessment framework for maritime trade routes" has been published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
New article by Orhan, Soman and Wallace
The article "Disconnecting a city centre to prevent through traffic: An a priori evaluation with a focus on freight transport" has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
Essays on Staffing and Transportation
On Monday 27 May 2024 Christian Braathen will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
New article by Orhan, Góez, Guajardo, Osicka and Wallace
The article "Assessing macro effects of freight consolidation on the livability of small cities using vehicle routing as micro models: The case of Bergen, Norway" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
Top publication by Narum and Wallace
The article "Problem-based scenario generation by decomposing output distributions" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
Representations of Uncertainty for Decision Modelling
On Monday 6 May 2024 Benjamin Narum will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Does manipulating AIS data help ships avoid Houthi attacks?
Gabriel Fuentes: Shipping companies face a costly dilemma in the Red Sea. Houthi attacks mean vessels passing through the Suez Canal risk being hit with ballistic missiles. The alternative is to go around the Cape of Good Hope, adding more than 8,000 nautical miles to the journey.
Top publication by Haiying Jia
The article "How do navy escorts influence piracy risk in East Africa? A Bayesian network approach" has been published in Risk Analysis.
New article by Rezaeinia, Góez and Guajardo
The article "Scheduling conferences using data on attendees’ preferences" has been published in Journal of the Operational Research Society.
Two NHH researchers secured prestigious EU funding
Jonna Olssson and Nicole Wägner at the Department of Economics have been awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship. They receive approximately NOK 2.4 million each.
Consequences of Changes in Commuting Patterns
On Monday 12 February 2024 Azam Azad Gholami will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Attacks in the Red sea: Far-reaching economic and political consequences
NHH researcher and shipping expert Gabriel M. Fuentes is a former officer in the merchant navy with experience in navigating through the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal. He closely monitors the crisis in the Red Sea.
New PhD thesis on decentralized supply channels
On Monday 22 January 2024 Mahnaz Fakhrabadi will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
NHH’s shipping expert Strandenes awarded Onassis Prize
Siri Pettersen Strandenes is awarded the Onassis Prize for her research work in shipping. ‘I hope this will inspire the next generation of young, talented women,’ Professor Emerita Strandenes says.
New article by Jia
The article "Crude oil transportation route choices: A connectivity reliability-based approach" has been published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
New article by Wallace
The article "Deep attention models with dimension-reduction and gate mechanisms for solving practical time-dependent vehicle routing problems" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
New article by Fuentes and Ådland
The article "Greenhouse gas mitigation at maritime chokepoints: The case of the Panama Canal" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Are 104 games the way forward for the 2026 FIFA World Cup?
Since FIFA announced the 2026 World Cup is to feature 48 teams organized in 16 three-team groups, a lot of criticism has been raised by fans, media, and researchers.
Maritime transport applications in an operational efficiency perspective
On Tuesday 21 February 2023 Gabriel Fuentes Lezcano will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
From finance in London to shipping professor at NHH
Haiying Jia was recently appointed full professor at NHH. She is an expert on shipping and finance. During her PhD in UK, she worked as an investment analyst in London.
Crisis after crisis in shipping
«NHH Shipping Conference – LeaderShip» is coming up. Now, they announce the line-up of more than 15 top speakers from the business and academia.
IMO’s Annual Efficiency Ratio comes in for heavy criticism
Roar Ådland, among others, fiercely criticizes the International Maritime Organization for its Annual Efficiency Ratio (AER), the key measure to define how ships fare when the Carbon Efficiency Indicator (CII) starts in just over a year.
Little Norway making big green waves?
How can we continue to use our unique knowledge of the ocean and technical expertise to make waves and drive changes on a global scale? This is one of the most important issues facing the Norwegian shipping industry.
New article by Fuentes
The article "Generating bunkering statistics from AIS data: A machine learning approach" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
New article by Gu and Wallace
The article "Operational benefits of autonomous vessels in logistics - A case of autonomous water-taxis in Bergen" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
New article by Wallace-3
The article "On scenario construction for stochastic shortest path problems in real road networks" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
New article by Jia
The article "The impact of an EU maritime emissions trading system on oil trades" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Job number one is to make better use of our resources
Christian Braathen: Even though conversion and green shift is important, it is not enough. We also have to make better use of today's resources.
Extreme Freight Rates Begin to Change Shippers' Calculations
The containerized shipping industry has been essential to global commerce for its low shipping costs. However, high freight rates are starting to have an impact on consumer goods. Roar Ådland is interviewed on this by The Maritime Executive.
New article by Rezaeinia, Goez and Guajardo
The article "Efficiency and fairness criteria in the assignment of students to projects" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
NHH and shipping in Egyptian news
`Because of the relatively quick solution, the incident is not likely to have a long-term effect on the shipping industry´, says NHH Professor Roar Ådland to Al-Ahram Weekly.
New article by Ådland and Jia
The article "The value of meteorological data in marine risk assessment" has been published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
Best Master Thesis prize to Benjamin Narum
Our PhD student Benjamin Narum is the 2019 - 2020 recipient of the NORS Best Master Thesis in Operations Research.
New article by Guajardo
The article "Efficient referee assignment in Argentinean professional basketball leagues using operations research methods" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
New article by Wallace-2
The article "The combined impact of stochastic and correlated activity durations and design uncertainty on project plans" has been published in International Journal of Production Economics.
New article by Wallace
The article "Soft clustering-based scenario bundling for a progressive hedging heuristic in stochastic service network design" has been published in Computers & Operations Research.
Professor Guajardo finalist in The Daniel H. Wagner Prize
Mario Guajardo was recently awarded a diploma in the final of 2020 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for his paper «Scheduling the Main Professional Soccer League of Argentina»
Carbon levy could more than double the price of traditional fuel
It will take a significant carbon levy, which more than doubles current fuel prices, to sufficiently push shipping's green transition in the way Norwegian and Danish shipowners call for, Roar Ådland tells ShippingWatch.
New article by Wallace
The article "Building trust in home services-stochastic team-orienteering with consistency constraints" has been published in Transportation Science.
New article by Ådland and Procházka
The article "The value of timecharter optionality in the drybulk market" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
New article by Jia
The article "Well-to-tank carbon emissions from crude oil maritime transportation" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Gabriel Fuentes second in UN software programming competition
PhD Research Scholar Gabriel Fuentes led his team to second place in the UN software programming competition "AIS Big Data Hackathon". Fuentes is employed at SNF and has office space at the Department of Business and Management Science at NHH.
Topics in cooperative game theory and logistics
On Wednesday 28 October 2020, Ondrej Osicka will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Mario Guajardo Wagner Prize Finalist
Mario Guajardo has made it through to the final of the 2020 Wagner Prize Competition, with an entry entitled "Scheduling the Main Professional Soccer League of Argentina".
CSL researchers featured in American Shipper opinion piece
Research about the freight shipping industry by Roar Ådland, Vit Prochazka and Stein W. Wallace is emphasised in a commentary article in American Shipper.
Forecasting, Efficiency and Speed in Maritime Shipping
On Tuesday September 8, Lisa Maria Assmann will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
NHH students make machine learning algorithm breakthrough, beating the cape markets by 10%
Just how much machine learning algorithms can deliver to capesize earnings has been quantified in a landmark new piece of research, by students supervised by Roar Ådland.
Research questions the validity of slow steaming’s green claims
Roar Ådland, Pierre Cariou and Francois-Charles Wolff have revisited the science behind slow steaming and are questioning the validity of the green claims championed by many owners and politicians such as Emmanuel Macron.
CLIMATE FUTURES TO BECOME A SFI CENTRE
NORCE to have a new centre for research-based innovation: Climate Futures will provide climate risk forecasts ranging from 10 days to 10 years ahead in time. NHH and SNF are two of the partners of the new SFI.
Top publication by Mario Guajardo
The article "Profit maximizing coalitions with shared capacities in distribution networks" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
New article by Ådland
The article "Optimal ship speed and the cubic law revisited: Empirical evidence from an oil tanker fleet" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
A new robot may help keep ships’ bottoms clean
Roar Ådland interviewed by The Economist: A midsized oil tanker’s fuel consumption drops by around 9 % after its hull is cleaned at sea. However, if the cleaning is done in a dry dock, that figure can be as much as 17 %.
New article by Jörnsten
The article "Modeling Commuting Flows via Fixed Components" has been published in Transportation Science.
The coronavirus gives us a warning for the Norwegian economy
Johannes Mauritzen: The coronavirus is a serious threat to the world economy, at least temporarily. But what happens know also tells us about Norway's long term risk as an oil nation.
Doing something about the climate crisis
Everyone is talking about the climate crisis. Bergens Tidende presents six researchers who are actually doing something about it. Yewen Gu is one of them.
The Claes Isacson Scholarship 2020
Students focusing on subjects related to, or of importance to, the shipping industry and/or the marine insurance business may apply for this scholarship (deadline: 1 April).
Pools resurface with shipping swimming in data
Roar Os Ådland writes about the sudden return of shipping pools in the news headlines this year.
New article by Wallace and Gu
The article "Handling financial risks in crude oil imports: Taking into account crude oil prices as well as country and transportation risks" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
Gave the government advice about research and innovation in the transport sector
This week the Ministry of Transport received the report Transport21. It is a contribution to strategy for research, development and innovation in the transport sector, directed towards the government, R&D actors and business.
Top publication by Stein W. Wallace (2)
The article "Problem-driven scenario generation: an analytical approach for stochastic programs with tail risk measure" has been published in Mathematical Programming.
New article by Procházka and Ådland
The article "Contracting decisions in the crude oil transportation market: Evidence from fixtures matched with AIS data" has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
New article by Mirhedayatian, Guajardo and Wallace
The article "A two-echelon location-routing problem with synchronisation" has been published in Journal of the Operational Research Society.
Three Professor promotions this week
NHH promotes Endre Bjørndal, Mario Guajardo and Arnt Ove Hopland as full professors at the Department of Business and Management Science.
New article by Procházka, Ådland and Wallace
The article "The value of foresight in the drybulk freight market" has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
New article by Gu and Wallace
The article "Can an Emission Trading Scheme really reduce CO2 emissions in the short term? Evidence from a maritime fleet composition and deployment model" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Guajardo and Wallace Guest Editors of Special Issue
The call for papers on “Autonomous technologies in Transportation and logistics” is open until October 31, 2019.
Wallace Program Chair of Prestigious Conference
The International Conference on Stochastic Programming was, for the first time, organized in Norway.
Workshop on Logistics of Autonomous Vessels
The event was part of the activities of the AUTOLOG project.
Call for abstracts CEMS Research Seminar on Supply Chain Management
As usual, our Centre for Shipping and Logistics will participate in the next CEMS Research Seminar on Supply Chain Management, organized by the CEMS Faculty Group Logistics.
Top publication by Mario Guajardo
The article "RobinX: a three-field classification and unified data format for round-robin sports timetabling" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
New article by Wallace
The article "Vehicle Routing with Space- and Time-Correlated Stochastic Travel Times: Evaluating the Objective Function" has been published in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
New article by Guajardo
The article "An analytics approach to the FIFA ranking procedure and the World Cup final draw" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
New article by Ådland
The article "When energy efficiency is secondary: The case of Offshore Support Vessels" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Wallace plenary speaker at French OR Society conference
Stein W. Wallace was invited as plenary speaker at the 20th conference of the French Operations Research & Decision Support Society (ROADEF).
CSL at the 16th CEMS Research Seminar in Austria
The 16th CEMS Research Seminar on Supply Chain Management took place in Riezlern, Austria, from January 23 to 27, 2019.
Top publication by Stein W. Wallace
The article "Stochastic optimization models for a bike-sharing problem with transshipment" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
New article by Guajardo
The article "Collaborative job scheduling in the wine bottling process" has been published in Omega.
New article by Wallace: INFORMS 141218
The article "Stochastic Network Design for Planning Scheduled Transportation Services: The Value of Deterministic Solutions" has been published in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
New article by Ådland: Crude oil contango arbitrage and the floating storage decision
The article "Crude oil contango arbitrage and the floating storage decision" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
New article by Wallace
The article "Scenario generation for single-period portfolio selection problems with tail risk measures: Coping with high dimensions and integer variables" has been published in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
Uncertainties ship operators face on a spot market
On Thursday 22 November 2018 Vit Procházka will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
New article by Ådland (2)
The article "Explaining price differences between physical and derivative freight contracts" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
The impact of environmental regulations on shipping
On Tuesday 28 August 2018 Yewen Gu will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
On scrubber and super profits
Roar Ådland questions the flurry of scrubber purchases in recent days. Are we merely back in the misleading ecoship territory from five years ago?
Guajardo finalist of EURO Excellence in Practice Award
Associate Professor Mario Guajardo has been selected as finalist of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA).
Plenary session and more of CSL at CMS conference in Trondheim
Stein W. Wallace has been invited to give a plenary session at the XV Conference on Computational Management Science (CMS)
Wallace plenary speaker at EURO’s EWGLA conference in UK
Stein W. Wallace has been invited to give a plenary session at the XXIV conference of the EURO working group on Locational Analysis (EWGLA).
Top publication by Mario Guajardo
The article "Collaborative transportation with overlapping coalitions" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
– Our goal is to see shipping lead the field
‘You represent an industry that has really felt the effects of the oil price drop at first-hand. But now the worst is over,’ said Minister of Trade and Industry Torbjørn Røe Isaksen at NHH’s shipping conference in Bergen.
New article by Ådland: Does energy efficiency affect ship values in the second-hand market?
The article "Does energy efficiency affect ship values in the second-hand market?" has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
AutoLog
The AutoLog project will research the usefulness of autonomous ships.
Top publication by Stein W. Wallace
The article "Big Data Analytics in Operations Management" has been published in Production and Operations Management.
No financial gain in digitalisation
Roar Ådland: There is no financial gain in digitalisation for the shipping companies.
Professor questions several aspects of Maersk and IBM's blockchain project
Despite massive exposure, it is far from certain that Maersk and IBM will win the digitalisation race in the shipping sector, says Roar Ådland.
Shipping: Electric before Autonomous
Roar Ådland writes about electrification in shipping, getting views from Tesla’s Elon Musk.