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That's absolutely fascinating. Do you have a source for further reading on those optimizations? I haven't been able to find anything with a bit of googling.



This page has a link to an Excel spreadsheet that calculates optimum speed as a function of fuel price and other factors: http://www.intertanko.com/Members-Information/benchmark/Opti...


Unfortunately, most of the papers I found by googling are behind paywalls :(


I for one would still appreciate a link - I think those of us on academic networks should be able to see most papers behind paywalls


Google for "oil tanker algorithms"




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