Ship deployment has been attracted much attention in the
domain of maritime logistics. Basic understanding of ship operation can be found in some textbooks(Alderton, 2008;Jansson and Shneerson, 1987;Stopford,2004;Wijnolst and Wergeland,2009;Talley,2009). Different strategies of CSLs to develop their ship fleet
are completely analysed by Notteboom(2004) and Cariou (2008).
Drewry(2009) and Notteboom(2012) pay attention to operational
strategies of CSLs to tackle over-capacity in the market.