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Improving Logistics Efficiency in Offshore Wind Farms Construction

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Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC 2018)

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The increasing construction of offshore wind farms and their expected improved profitability call for a better efficiency in offshore logistics. Based on some existing principles from optimizing production techniques, this paper proposes an ad hoc model to measure and improve efficiency for logistics during offshore wind farms construction.

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Chartron, S., Haasis, HD. (2018). Improving Logistics Efficiency in Offshore Wind Farms Construction. In: Freitag, M., Kotzab, H., Pannek, J. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. LDIC 2018. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74225-0_17

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