Solving Multistage Transportation Problems: Minimizing Costs and Optimizing Transshipment Strategies

Namita Rani Mall

Abstract: The transportation problem is a special type of linear programming problem where the objective is to minimize the cost of distributing a product from a number of sources or origins to number of destinations. The process of shipping products or containers to one location as an intermediate and then to another is known as transshipment. Transloading the practice of switching modes of transportation during a trip is one such explanation. Another reason is to combine small shipments, dividing the large shipments to the other end. A significant portion of international transshipment occurs in regions designated to the customers, avoiding the requirement for the customer?s inspection or fees, which would otherwise be a significant barrier to effective transportation problems, are those in which transshipment is permitted. It may not pass via intermediary nodes, perhaps requiring a change in the method of transit. In this paper a simple multistage transportation problem is solved using the lingo software.

Keywords: Transportation, shipments, origins, destinations, lingo

How to Cite?: Namita Rani Mall, "Solving Multistage Transportation Problems: Minimizing Costs and Optimizing Transshipment Strategies", Volume 14 Issue 1, January 2025, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1289-1291, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR25128111552, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR25128111552