A shipping company operates 10 container ships that can each carry 5000 containers oneach journey between ports. They want to be able to load and unload 20,000 containerseach week. Assume their ships always travel fully loaded. What is the longest averagetravel time between ports that allows them to meet their goal of 20,000 containers perweek?

A shipping company operates 10 container ships that can each carry 5000 containers oneach journey between ports. They want to be able to load and unload 20,000 containerseach week. Assume their ships always travel fully loaded. What is the longest averagetravel time between ports that allows them to meet their goal of 20,000 containers perweek?

Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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