The article "Addressing uncertainty in coalition structure and profit allocation problems through stochastic programming: insights from the collaborative transportation problem" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
The article "Enabling collaborative logistics in rural contexts with digital technologies: a systematic literature review" has been published in International Journal of Production Research.
On Thursday 29 January Pankaj Kumar Sinha will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
The article "Harvest Planning under Uncertainty for Ocean-based Salmon Aquaculture" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
The article "Electric vehicle charging costs and power losses under the energy price crisis: shifting dynamics in Norway" has been published in Energy Economics.
The article "An evacuation planning model considering stochastic non-compliance behaviour and shelter-in-place strategy" has been published in Journal of the Operational Research Society.
City centers are becoming denser, and online shopping is booming. The result: more freight traffic moving through narrow urban streets. Research from NHH helps public authorities plan better for urban freight transport.
This week, the International Maritime Organization votes on a landmark proposal: A global carbon levy on shipping emissions. What will it mean for Norway?
NHH students Martin Sollesnes Kleppe (left) and Oliver Karlsen have been awarded the Lehmkuhl Grant for developing a new tool to improve the energy efficiency of supply vessels.
On Tuesday 16 September 2025 Andres Felipe Velez Correa will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
The article "Climate influence on Panama Canal operations: Predicting canal water times with integrated environmental and operational data" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
The annual conference of IAME (International Association of Maritime Economists) gathered in Bergen and at NHH this year. They learned that environmentally conscious cargo owners and climate itself is likely to put a premium cost on the business.
The article "E-commerce shipments in an X-minute city: Informing authorities on freight transport through parcel lockers" has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
The article "Data driven operational risk management" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
When One Ocean Week sails in from April 5–11, NHH is, of course, participating. Dive into our events where several of our experts will share their knowledge.
Stein W. Wallace has been named an honorary member of the Norwegian Operations Research Society.
The article "Active guidance systems in maritime evacuations: optimizing the lifeboat allocation for cruise ships" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
`Shipping moves closer to 80 percent of the world’s cargo by volume, making transportation costs a critical economic factor´, says NHH researcher Gabriel M. Fuentes, himself from Panama.
`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.
NHH Professor Siri Pettersen Strandenes chaired the committee that presented its report today.
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.
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.
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.
The article "Navigating uncertainty: A dynamic Bayesian network-based risk assessment framework for maritime trade routes" has been published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
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.
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.
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.
The article "Problem-based scenario generation by decomposing output distributions" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
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.
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.
The article "How do navy escorts influence piracy risk in East Africa? A Bayesian network approach" has been published in Risk Analysis.
The article "Scheduling conferences using data on attendees’ preferences" has been published in Journal of the Operational Research Society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The article "Crude oil transportation route choices: A connectivity reliability-based approach" has been published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«NHH Shipping Conference – LeaderShip» is coming up. Now, they announce the line-up of more than 15 top speakers from the business and academia.
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.
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.
The article "Generating bunkering statistics from AIS data: A machine learning approach" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The article "Efficiency and fairness criteria in the assignment of students to projects" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
`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.
The article "The value of meteorological data in marine risk assessment" has been published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
Our PhD student Benjamin Narum is the 2019 - 2020 recipient of the NORS Best Master Thesis in Operations Research.
The article "Efficient referee assignment in Argentinean professional basketball leagues using operations research methods" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
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.
The article "Soft clustering-based scenario bundling for a progressive hedging heuristic in stochastic service network design" has been published in Computers & Operations Research.
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»
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.
The article "Building trust in home services-stochastic team-orienteering with consistency constraints" has been published in Transportation Science.
The article "The value of timecharter optionality in the drybulk market" has been published in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
The article "Well-to-tank carbon emissions from crude oil maritime transportation" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
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.
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 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".
Research about the freight shipping industry by Roar Ådland, Vit Prochazka and Stein W. Wallace is emphasised in a commentary article in American Shipper.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The article "Profit maximizing coalitions with shared capacities in distribution networks" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
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.
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 %.
The article "Modeling Commuting Flows via Fixed Components" has been published in Transportation Science.
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.
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.
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).
Roar Os Ådland writes about the sudden return of shipping pools in the news headlines this year.
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.
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.
The article "Problem-driven scenario generation: an analytical approach for stochastic programs with tail risk measure" has been published in Mathematical Programming.
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.
The article "A two-echelon location-routing problem with synchronisation" has been published in Journal of the Operational Research Society.
NHH promotes Endre Bjørndal, Mario Guajardo and Arnt Ove Hopland as full professors at the Department of Business and Management Science.
The article "The value of foresight in the drybulk freight market" has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
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.
The call for papers on “Autonomous technologies in Transportation and logistics” is open until October 31, 2019.
The International Conference on Stochastic Programming was, for the first time, organized in Norway.
The event was part of the activities of the AUTOLOG project.
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.
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.
The article "Vehicle Routing with Space- and Time-Correlated Stochastic Travel Times: Evaluating the Objective Function" has been published in INFORMS Journal on Computing.
The article "An analytics approach to the FIFA ranking procedure and the World Cup final draw" has been published in Annals of Operations Research.
The article "When energy efficiency is secondary: The case of Offshore Support Vessels" has been published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Stein W. Wallace was invited as plenary speaker at the 20th conference of the French Operations Research & Decision Support Society (ROADEF).
The 16th CEMS Research Seminar on Supply Chain Management took place in Riezlern, Austria, from January 23 to 27, 2019.
The article "Stochastic optimization models for a bike-sharing problem with transshipment" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
The article "Collaborative job scheduling in the wine bottling process" has been published in Omega.
