The Fuel Replenishment Problem: A Split-Delivery Multi-Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Trips

•We investigate a VRP which involves resupplying petrol stations by tanker trucks.•The problem is modeled as a multi-compartment, multi-trip, split-delivery VRP.•An efficient ALNS heuristic is proposed to solve realistically sized instances.•Exact MILP and Column Generation models are proposed to compute strong bounds.•Problems with 60 stations, 20 trucks are solved within a 10% opt. gap within 25 min.