Scale and rationalization in container shipping

Returns to scale are important in container shipping; service operators are continuing to increase the size of their vessels. Mr Seok-Min Lim's article 'Economies of container ship size' (Maritime Policy and Management, 21 (2) pages 149-160.1994) uses a sample of transpacific voyages to evaluate the effect of vessel scale on revenue and cost. Although the results are inconclusive, his study is…

Opportunities for increased profit and reduced cost and emissions by service …

This paper investigates opportunities for increased profit and reduced emissions and cost by service differentiation within container shipping. Traditionally the strategy among the container lines has been profit maximization by utilizing economies of scale through the building of larger and faster vessels. In 2008, the financial crisis in combination with higher fuel prices put an end to this …

On cost-efficiency of the global container shipping network

This paper presents a simple formulation in the form of a pipe network for modelling the global container-shipping network. The cost-efficiency and movement-patterns of the current container-shipping network have been investigated using heuristic methods. The model is able to reproduce the overall incomes, costs, and container movement patterns for the industry as well as for the individual shi…

Multicriteria analysis in shipping investment evaluation

This paper discusses the needs and possibilities of widening the traditional perspective through which shipping investment decisions are taken by embedding them in a multicriteria environment. The set off point has been the frequent observation that a shipping decision maker (DM) faced with ship investment decision-making is influenced by factors that are not clearly financial or cannot be easi…

Internalization of port congestion: strategic effect behind shipping line del…

This paper develops a theoretical model to analyze the congestion internalization of the shipping lines, taking into account the ‘knock on’ effect (i.e. the congestion delay passed on from one port-of-call to the next port-of-call). We find that with the presence of the knock-on effect, liners will operate less in terminals, and an increase of a liner’s operation in one terminal will decr…

Impact of the container security initiative on Taiwan's shipping industry

This paper evaluates the impact of risk factors from the container security initiative on Taiwan’s shipping industry by employing a risk management matrix to identify the severity and frequency of CSI risk factors, and discovers some appropriate risk management alternatives. This paper’s findings are as follows: (1) The majority of risk factors have a moderate-risk level, and possible alte…

Factors influencing container carriers’ use of coastal shipping

Coastal shipping is one of the most sustainable and economically competitive modes of transportation. This study employs the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method to determine the importance of various factors influencing container carriers’ use of coastal shipping. A three-level hierarchical structure with the 17 attributes is proposed and tested. A previous AHP survey in Taiwan has indica…

Empty container reposition planning for intra-Asia liner shipping

This paper addresses empty container reposition planning by plainly considering safety stock management and geographical regions. This plan could avoid drawback in practice which collects mass empty containers at a port then repositions most empty containers at a time. Empty containers occupy slots on vessel and the liner shipping company loses chance to yield freight revenue. The problem is dr…

Economies of scale in container shipping

Very large container ships are being built with the theoretical justification that they will produce economies of scale. It is clear, however. that the immediate result of the mega-ship buildings is an overtonnaging of the world's major liner routes. As major operators have put newer and bigger ships in the water, they have significantly reduced the slot costs in the container trades to which t…

Determinants of slow steaming and implications on service patterns

The research focuses on the impact of the shipping strategy to decrease the commercial speed of container vessels, in order to reduce the bunker costs, on current service patterns. In this regard, the study also hypothesizes potential development trends in the near future. The reduction of the commercial speed, commonly referred to as “slow steaming,” has been introduced to mitigate the neg…

Competitiveness of Asian Container Terminals

The paper analyzes factors affecting the competitiveness of Asian container terminals by including quantitative as well as qualitative factors such as operating capacity, convenient facilities, electronic documents handling capacity and connectivity to hinterland. I provide evidence that those factors have a nonnegligible role as to competitiveness of container terminals. The paper applies a pa…

Case study analysis of the impacts of electronic commerce on the strategic ma…

Despite the prevalence of its use, very little is understood about the role of electronic commerce (EC) practice on the strategic management of container shipping companies. Four case studies were undertaken to assess the main uses, motivations, barriers and strategic relevance of EC in the container shipping industry between 1992 and 2002. The cases studies included one large, one medium and o…

Analyzing the economic benefit of unmanned autonomous ships: An exploratory c…

Unmanned autonomous ships are seen as a key element of a competitive and sustainable European shipping industry in future. But even if the technology to further automate ships will principally be available at some point, this does not imply that autonomous vessels are also the superior choice for the ship owner. In the end the success of autonomous vessels depends on their impact on the profita…

An analysis of freight rate volatility in dry bulk shipping markets

The world bulk shipping market has been in a peak period since 2003, and this has lasted an incredibly long time considering that the markets are much more complex than before. This paper investigates the characteristics of volatility in dry bulk freight rates of different vessel sizes (capesize, panamax and handysize). The daily returns of freight rate indices of three different types of bulk …

A Recursive Algorithm for Order Cycle-time that Minimizes Logistics Cost

A firm's logistics cost, including shipping and inventory-carrying, is a substantial percentage of its sales. Nevertheless, typical inventory-control methods ignore or insufficiently represent the shipping cost. This paper describes a recursive algorithm that determines the reorder cycle-time that minimizes total logistics cost. It allows for a realistic accounting of shipping cost, which is mo…

A new approach to granting terminal concessions: the case of the Rotterdam Wo…

This paper describes in detail the award process of the concession for a large container terminal in the port of Rotterdam. This process can be termed competitive bidding, and differs from a tender because of the frequent interaction between the Port of Rotterdam Authority and the candidates. The competitive bidding process is a potentially attractive form in which to grant concessions, if ther…

Staying afloat: A history of maritime passenger industry marketing

The purpose of this paper is to recount the history of the marketing of the maritime passenger industry (known today as the cruise industry). This is a unique industry that has survived and thrived for almost 175 years despite dramatic environmental changes. This history focuses on passenger shipping in and out of the USA first from/to European ports, later focusing on cruises from the USA to t…

Container Liner Shipping, Port Development and Competition

This chapter reviews and analyses the contemporary development of liner shipping, port development and competition. It begins with a comprehensive review on the latest developmental trends of liner shipping and business strategies, as well as their impacts on port development and competition. Then, it discusses the responses of ports, past, present and (likely) future, in addressing these new d…

Corporate Social Responsibility in Maritime Logistics

This chapter discusses the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the context of the container liner shipping industry. It looks at the current practice of CSR in this industry and outlines the framework, the reasons and the drivers for companies to adopt and implement a CSR strategy. These include, among others, the increasing commitment to fostering CSR in the private sector …

Sea–river shipping competitiveness and its geographical market area for the…

The concept of sea–river shipping is simple: a single vessel sails both coastal and inland waters. Thus, seaport transhipment is avoided resulting in lower transport costs. However, this concept is limited to certain transport waterways. On the Rhoˆne–Saoˆne corridor, sea– river shipping can directly connect inland ports with Mediterranean seaports. The absence of transhipment raises th…

Emissions from international shipping in the Belgian part of the North Sea an…

The objective of this study is to estimate the atmospheric emissions by international merchant shipping of carbondioxide (CO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) during 1 year in the Belgian part of the North Sea, including the four Belgian seaports: Antwerp, Ghent, Ostend and Zeebrugge. The estimated emissions are based on a bottom-up, activity-based methodology (Group 1), coveri…

Maritime logistics in EU green ports and short sea shipping

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978-1-78052-340-8

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19 p.

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Maritime Logistics

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the Nationality of ships

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978-94-011-951 0-2

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the Regulation of international shipping : international and comparative pers…

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978-90-04-20244-3

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xv, 585 p.

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Shipping and economic growth 1350–1850

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978-90-04-19439-7

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xix, 464 p.

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the Business of shipping

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978-94-009-4117-5

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x, 513 p.

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Ship motion control : course keeping and roll stabilisation using rudder and …

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978-1-85233-959-3

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xxi, 300 p.

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Seaports in international law

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978-3-319-60396-4

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Robust Control of Diesel Ship Propulsion

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978-1-4471-0191-8

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xiii, 214 p.

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Ship design : methodologies of preliminary design

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978-94-017-8751-2

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x, 621 p.

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Design principles of ships and marine structures

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13-978-4822-5447-1

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xxiii, 450 p.

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Computational ship design

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978-981-10-4885-2

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xiv, 377 p.

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Maritime law

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978-1-315-75201-3

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lxxix, 554 p.

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Maritime atlas of world ports and shipping

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843-11-382

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Shipping operations management

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978-3-319-62365-8

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xxiii, 248 p.

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Judicial sales of ships : a comparative study

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978-3-319-24376-4

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vix, 203 p.

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Ship construction and welding

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978-981-10-2955-4

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xv, 314 p.

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Green shipping management

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978-3-319-26482-0

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viii, 133 p.

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Dynamic shipping and port development in the globalized economy volume 1 : ap…

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978-1-137-51429-5

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Dynamics of liner shipping service scheduling and their impact on container p…

Container ports provide the primary interface where physical exchange between buyers and sellers of containerised shipping capacity can be consolidated and realised. Consequently, ports that are able to complement and add value to the objectives of shipping lines and shippers will become focal points for containerised cargo flows. To evaluate container port competition, the authors propose a pr…

Container shipping on the Northern Sea Route

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the principal commercial maritime routes have changed very little. With global warming, the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has opened up as a possible avenue of trade in containerized products between Asia and Europe. This paper verifies the technical and economic feasibility of regular container transport along the NSR. By adopting a model schedule between Sh…

A survey of short sea shipping and its prospects in the USA

The continuing growth of international container trade has created capacity problems at major US ports, and the truck-based freight transportation has caused a deterioration of traffic congestion on important US transportation corridors. Using inland and coastal waterways, short sea shipping (SSS) can provide an improvement to these problems. Furthermore, SSS offers many additional benefits for…

Container liner shipping, port development and competition

This chapter reviews and analyses the contemporary development of liner shipping, port development and competition. It begins with a comprehensive review on the latest developmental trends of liner shipping and business strategies, as well as their impacts on port development and competition. Then, it discusses the responses of ports, past, present and (likely) future, in addressing these new d…

Container freight rates and the role of surcharges

This paper demonstrates that the structure of ocean container freight rates has become more complex. A growing number of surcharges are being imposed by the carriers on their customers, surcharges that are not only adding significant extra costs but are highly variable over time. These elements are examined based on a data set on export rates from ports on the Northern European Range that have …

The shipping point : the rise of China and the future of retail supply chain …

The author, Peter Levesque, has over 20 years of international transportation and logistics experience and has been working in Hong Kong since 1996. Prior to joining Modern Terminals, he served at several management positions including American President Lines, DHL’s Supply Chain in Asia Pacific, CEVA Logistics, and co-founded a 3PL company, V-Logic Limited, in 2001. He also served as an Adju…

Across the waves : a bibliometric analysis of container shipping research sin…

The paper investigates collaborative and semantic patterns that emerged between 1967 and 2013 about the theme of container shipping based on a corpus of 294 articles published in scholarly journals within the fields of transportation, supply chain, economics, geography, regional planning and development, and operations research. An analysis based on the cooccurrence of title words allows identi…

The potential for British coastal shipping in a multimodal chain

A strategy to revitalize coastal shipping within Great Britain is investigated. An examination of the regulatory environment shows government, at both the EU and British levels, aware of the environmental bene®ts of coastal shipping compared to road freight transport, if only mildly supportive in tangible terms. The geography of Great Britain and the modern preference for just-in-time deliveri…

Impacts of the board of directors and ownership structure on consolidation st…

In the study I examine the relationship between corporate governance and consolidation strategies for shipping firms. The analysis is focused on the ownership structure and corporate governance power which are supposed to influence the consolidation strategies. I investigate M&As and global alliances occurred during 2006-2007 fiscal years in maritime industry. In the empirical study, I find tha…

Identification of the shipping district in New York, Houston and Seattle: 195…

In the world’s great seaport cities, the offices of steamship lines were seldom far from the docks. Intuitively, workers in the port community could identify a waterfront and near-waterfront domain where most of their daily affairs with ships and cargoes occurred. This we have called the shipping district. It was a distinct but not an exclusive domain, since it was shared by other commercial …

Industry brief - business community seeks isps compliance for batu ampar port

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