MOL Develops Allocation Plan For Car Carriers using AI Technology

Japanese shipping firm Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has developed a vessel allocation and cargo loading plan for car carriers in collaboration with its group company MOL Information Systems and Osaka University.

The plan utilises mathematical optimisation that is a fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) technology, says an article published on their website.

Why cargo loading plan?

MOL runs a fleet of approximately 100 car carriers. Each ship is capable of handling about 5,000 standard passenger cars. 

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MOL Uses AI To Successfully Execute Vessel Allocation Plan

In a major development, TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Juinichiro Ikeda) and its group company MOL Information Systems, Ltd. (President: Tsuyoshi Yoshida; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo)  has announced that, along with Associate Professor Shunji Umetani (Note 1) of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, they have successfully developed a vessel allocation plan and cargo loading plan (Note 2) for car carriers based on “mathematical...

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