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Do carrier expectations indicate industry structure in container shipping? An econometric analysis

In the competitive environment of liner shipping, the ability to nimbly adjust shipping capacity to demand could mean the difference between a thriving shipping operation and one that will most likely fail. Ho...

Authors: Michael Fusillo and Hercules Haralambides

Hedging ship price risk using freight derivatives in the drybulk market

We show that a fixed-maturity time-weighted Forward Freight Agreement (FFA) portfolio should be used to proxy the expected future earnings of a vessel. We investigate the corresponding hedging efficiency when ...

Authors: Roar Adland, Haakon Ameln and Eirik A. Børnes

Economic evaluation of alternative technologies to mitigate Sulphur emissions in maritime container transport from both the vessel owner and shipper perspective

International maritime shipping is confronted from 2006 onwards with regulation until 2030 by different policy actors (i.e. International Maritime Organization, hereafter IMO), the EU) in order to improve the ...

Authors: Seyed Abolfazl Mohseni, Edwin van Hassel, Christa Sys and Thierry Vanelslander

Service quality evaluation of international freight forwarders: an empirical research in East Asia

The purpose of this paper is to improve service quality of international freight forwarders and explore practical business solutions to enhance customer service level. Freight forwarder usually acts as an agen...

Authors: Sheng Teng Huang, Emrah Bulut and Okan Duru

How to make urban freight transport by tram successful?

Many national and international bodies, such as the European Commission, encourage the use of environment-friendly transport modes. Local and national authorities take more and more measures, for instance road...

Authors: Katrien De Langhe, Hilde Meersman, Christa Sys, Eddy Van de Voorde and Thierry Vanelslander

Toward implementing a fully automated truck guidance system at a seaport: identifying the roles, costs and benefits of logistics stakeholders

The seaport-hinterland access infrastructures become more saturated leading to extra unpredictable costs for logistics operators. To keep their services competitive, infrastructure managers (such as port autho...

Authors: Valentin Carlan, Dries Naudts, Pieter Audenaert, Bart Lannoo and Thierry Vanelslander

Shipping digitalization management: conceptualization, typology and antecedents

Digital transformation is a topical theme in shipping research and professional practice, today. Our paper aims at developing a comprehensive framework of digitalization technologies and their maritime busines...

Authors: Maria Lambrou, Daisuke Watanabe and Junya Iida

The “Belt and Road Initiative”: impacts on TEN-T and on the European transport system

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, announced in late 2013, includes the construction of land-based transport connections between Asia and Europe, the creation of an economic belt for Eurasian cooperation, and m...

Authors: Dick Dunmore, Alberto Preti and Clémence Routaboul

A cointegrating stock trading strategy: application to listed tanker shipping companies

In the current paper, we propose a strategy to trade a portfolio of listed shipping companies in the US market. In particular, we estimate a co-integrating relationship between the weekly stock market returns ...

Authors: Nektarios A. Michail and Konstantinos D. Melas

Exploring seaport - dry ports dyadic integration to meet the increase in container vessels size

This paper explores the implications of vessel enlargement on seaport competitiveness and investigates the dyadic integration between seaports and dry ports to address drastic vessel size acceleration in the M...

Authors: Jagan Jeevan and Violeta Roso

The ostensible tension between competition and cooperation in ports: a case study on intra-port competition and inter-organizational relations in the Rotterdam container handling sector

Strategic alliances in the container shipping sector, and requirements imposed by consolidated hinterland modalities such as trains and barges, have resulted in container terminals facing increasing pressures ...

Authors: R. B. Castelein, H. Geerlings and J. H. R. Van Duin

Evaluation of e-commerce location and entry to China – implications on shipping and trade

E-commerce is experiencing strong global growth, and leading market is nowadays that of China, whether it is evaluated from the perspective of domestic market size or cross-border volumes. In this research wor...

Authors: Yulia Panova, Albert Tan, Olli-Pekka Hilmola, M. H. Puvindran, Xu Hongsheng and Weidong Li

Evaluating ocean carrier selection criteria: perspectives of Tasmanian shippers

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the decision process of Tasmanian shippers when selecting an ocean carrier. Data collected through an internet-based survey is described, and influential selection crit...

Authors: Peter Dzakah FANAM and Leigh ACKERLY

Container barge congestion and handling in large seaports: a theoretical agent-based modeling approach

Container Barging forms an important mode of transportation especially in large seaports with a strong inland waterway connectivity. This is because it is Cost-efficient and environmental friendly compared to ...

Authors: Peter Shobayo and Edwin van Hassel

Evaluation of port disruption impacts in the global liner shipping network

The global container shipping network is vital to international trade. Current techniques for its vulnerability assessment are constrained due to the lack of historical disruption data and computational limita...

Authors: Pablo E. Achurra-Gonzalez, Panagiotis Angeloudis, Nils Goldbeck, Daniel J. Graham, Konstantinos Zavitsas and Marc E. J. Stettler

Are trade and transport logistics activities mutually reinforcing? Some empirical evidences from ASEAN countries

Both trade and transport logistics activities have impressively flourished among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries over the past decades. Based on these observations, this paper conj...

Authors: Kee-hung Lai, Yu Pang, Christina W. Y. Wong, Y. H. Venus Lun and Y. N. Eppie Ng

Factors causing peak energy consumption of reefers at container terminals

Reefers are refrigerated containers commonly used for transporting perishable goods such as meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. Nowadays, reefers are responsible for 40% of the total energy consumption of contai...

Authors: J. H. R. van Duin, H. Geerlings, L. A. Tavasszy and D. L. Bank

Multidimensional examination of the performances of a liner shipping network: trunk line/route operated by conventional (Panamax Max) and mega (ULC - ultra large container) ships

This paper deals multidimensional examination of performances of a trunk line/route of liner container-shipping network serving an intercontinental supply chain by the conventional (Panamax Max) and mega (ULC ...

Authors: Milan Janić

The impact of potential Brexit scenarios on German car exports to the UK: an application of the gravity model

The objective is to forecast the impact of potential Brexit scenarios on the export volume of passenger cars from Germany to the UK. Based on Germany’s total export volume of passenger cars, a double-logarithm...

Authors: Jacqueline Karlsson, Helena Melin and Kevin Cullinane

HIGH-TOOL – a strategic assessment tool for evaluating EU transport policies

In this paper the strategic transport policy assessment instrument HIGH-TOOL is presented. The model has been developed for the European Commission, allowing policy-makers to identify the most advantageous tra...

Authors: E. Szimba, J. Ihrig, M. Kraft, K. Mitusch, M. Chen, M. Chahim, J. van Meijeren, J. Kiel, B. Mandel, A. Ulied, E. Larrea, G. De Ceuster, R. Van Grol, Z. Berki, A. Székely and R. Smith

The role of information systems usage in enhancing port logistics performance: evidence from the Dar Es Salaam port, Tanzania

This study investigated the role of information systems usage in enhancing port logistics performance using the port of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as an example. Specifically, the study examined the role of info...

Authors: James Mlimbila and Ulingeta O. L. Mbamba

Standard setting and carrier differentiation at seaports

The deployment of mega container ships with a capacity for 18,000 + TEU on major trade lanes is a recent trend within the ocean shipping industry. Larger ships pose multiple challenges to ports and hinterland ...

Authors: Christopher B. Clott, Bruce C. Hartman and Robert Cannizzaro

Swedish shippers’ strategies for coping with slow-steaming in deep sea container shipping

When container shipping lines experience over-capacity and high fuel costs, they typically respond by decreasing sailing speeds and, consequently, increasing transport time. Most of the literature on this phen...

Authors: Christian Finnsgård, Joakim Kalantari, Zeeshan Raza, Violeta Roso and Johan Woxenius

Quality management and international trade: institutionalization of quality standards and performance outcomes in China

Although the original purpose for quality management standards such as ISO 9000 was to facilitate international trade, their effectiveness is widely questioned recently. In the literature, it has been commonly...

Authors: Yujuan Guo, Abe P. L. Jong and Andy C. L. Yeung

Short sea shipping: a statistical analysis of influencing factors on SSS in European countries

Short sea shipping (SSS) is the maritime transport of goods over relatively short distances, as opposed to the intercontinental cross-ocean deep sea shipping. The goal of the current paper is to identify SSS g...

Authors: Gertjan van den Bos and Bart Wiegmans

Investment decisions under uncertainty on LNG-powered vessels for environmental compliance

The shipping industry is investigating alternative fuels for ships, in order to comply with stricter emission requirements implemented by International Maritime Organization (IMO). Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) ...

Authors: Shun Chen, Shiyuan Zheng and Qiang Zhang

Transshipment hub port selection criteria by shipping lines: the case of hub ports around the bay of Bengal

With the competitive nature of the liner shipping industry, the transshipment hub port selection process has become complicated with numerous decision-making criteria that need to be considered, and competitio...

Authors: Chathumi Kavirathna, Tomoya Kawasaki, Shinya Hanaoka and Takuma Matsuda

Opportunities for peak shaving the energy demand of ship-to-shore quay cranes at container terminals

This paper presents the results of both a qualitative and a quantitative study on the possibilities for peak shaving the energy demand of ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at container terminals. The objective is to ...

Authors: Harry Geerlings, Robert Heij and Ron van Duin

Analysis of maritime team workload and communication dynamics in standard and emergency scenarios

The introduction of next-generation technologies to the maritime shipping industry, including Portable Pilotage Units, Remote Pilotage, advanced situation awareness aids, and Autonomous Shipping, creates an ur...

Authors: Martin Lochner, Andreas Duenser, Margareta Lutzhoft, Ben Brooks and David Rozado

The impacts of port infrastructure and logistics performance on economic growth: the mediating role of seaborne trade

Considering 91 countries with seaports, this study conducted an empirical inquiry into the broader economic contribution of seaborne trade, from a port infrastructure quality and logistics performance perspect...

Authors: Ziaul Haque Munim and Hans-Joachim Schramm

Investigating the bunkering choice determinants: the case of the port of Antwerp

From a European, regional and local perspective, as well as from the perspective of port authorities, it is important that waterborne transport becomes sustainable. As possible solutions to comply with new typ...

Authors: Raimonds Aronietis, Christa Sys, Edwin van Hassel and Thierry Vanelslander

Free ports: towards a network of trade gateways

Free ports are a form of territorial exceptionalism that has existed for centuries and become an important paradigm of globalization. In the contemporary setting, they act as transportation, logistics and trad...

Authors: Alexandre Lavissière and Jean-Paul Rodrigue

The procurement of food on board liner ships: the role of the international labor organization

Food is important for liner shipping companies (LSCs) in their efforts to support daily lives and fulfil seafarer demand. Food issues are addressed in the International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Food and C...

Authors: Yui-yip Lau and Tsz Leung Yip

Modelling production-consumption flows of goods in Europe: the trade model within Transtools3

The paper presents a new model for trade flows in Europe that is integrated with a logistics model for transport chain choice through Logsum variables. Logsums measures accessibility across an entire multi-mod...

Authors: Gerard de Jong, Reto Tanner, Jeppe Rich, Mikkel Thorhauge, Otto Anker Nielsen and John Bates

Erratum to: Shipping Optimisation Systems (SOS): tramp optimisation perspective

Authors: Said El Noshokaty

Shipping Optimisation Systems (SOS): tramp optimisation perspective

This research paper is to announce a new policy to all systems which are sensitive to time. In tramp cargo transportation, as an example, the current policy is to select for each ship the cargo mix which contr...

Authors: Said El Noshokaty

Connecting the world through global shipping networks

Authors: Jan Hoffmann, Gordon Wilmsmeier and Y.H. Venus Lun

Liner shipping connectivity as determinant of trade

Transport connectivity is a crucial determinant of bilateral exports. This paper presents an empirical assessment of the relationship between bilateral maritime liner shipping connectivity and exports in conta...

Authors: Marco Fugazza and Jan Hoffmann

The adaptation process in port governance: the case of the Latin countries in South America and Europe

The particular location of port infrastructure holds characteristics that determine the activity of the port, both with respect to traffic and with respect to implementing competitive strategies; and the effic...

Authors: Fernando González Laxe, Ricardo J. Sánchez and Lorena Garcia-Alonso

A descriptive method for analysing the Kra Canal decision on maritime business patterns in Malaysia

The Kra Canal issue has widely been discussed by maritime players, such as policy makers, regulators, and shipping and port operators. It seems that the idea of developing the Kra Canal is most welcome due to ...

Authors: Noorul Shaiful Fitri Abdul Rahman, Nurul Haqimin Mohd Salleh, Ahmad Fayas Ahmad Najib and Venus Y. H. Lun

Examining the effectiveness of the simplified air-cargo express consignment clearance system in Taiwan

The Simplified Express Consignment Clearance System was first introduced in Taiwan in 2001 to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of customs clearance operations of air cargo. This system, which is based ...

Authors: Tao Chen

Connectivity and trade relativity: the case of ASEAN

To explore the concept of connectivity and trade relativity (CTR), this paper presents a research model to illustrate: (1) the impact of shipping connectivity on two types of trade flows, and (2) the mediating...

Authors: Y. H. Venus Lun and Jan Hoffmann

Evolving structure of the maritime trade network: evidence from the Lloyd’s Shipping Index (1890–2000)

Over 90 % of the world trade volumes is being carried by sea nowadays. This figure shows the massive importance of the maritime trade routes for the world economy. However, the evolution of their structure ove...

Authors: Zuzanna Kosowska-Stamirowska, César Ducruet and Nishant Rai

Is reducing speed the right mitigating action to limit harmful emissions of seagoing RoRo cargo carriers?

The Energy Emission Design Index (EEDI) is an index indicating the CO₂ emission per transportation effort, for example the emitted tons CO₂ per ton mile, to be calculated for each new design. The required index f...

Authors: Koos Frouws

Editorial: Journal of Shipping and Trade

Authors: T.C. Edwin Cheng, Y.H. Venus Lun and K.H. Lai

Financial modelling and analysis of the management of dredged marine sediments – development of a decision support tool

The management of dredged sediments is a major challenge for many ports and harbours who need to maintain navigable access. Sediment volumes produced may be significant and expensive to manage. This paper pres...

Authors: Joseph Harrington, J. Murphy, M. Coleman, D. Jordan and G. Szacsuri

Economic evaluation of the environmental impact of shipping from the perspective of CO₂ emissions

In this research we evaluate the environmental economic impact of shipping from the perspective of CO₂ emissions by implementing Marine Emission Trading Scheme (METS), as defined. This trading scheme is based on ...

Authors: Elyakim Ben-Hakoun, Mordechai Shechter and Yehuda Hayuth

Low emission engine technologies for future tier 3 legislations - options and case studies

Marine emission legislation such as the current IMO Tier II and upcoming IMO Tier III requirements within the revised Marpol Annex VI have been major drivers for performance development of marine engines durin...

Authors: Christer Wik and Seppo Niemi

Forecasting port-level demand for LNG as a ship fuel: the case of the port of Antwerp

From a European, regional and local perspective, as well as from the point of view of port authorities, it is important that waterborne transport should be sustainable. In this context, liquefied natural gas (...

Authors: Raimonds Aronietis, Christa Sys, Edwin van Hassel and Thierry Vanelslander

Examining the economic impact of transport complex economies

Transport complex economies (TCEs), which comprise both upstream and downstream firms in the transport chain that conduct shipping and trade-related activities, can be desirable locations for port users (e.g.,...

Authors: Y. H. Venus Lun, John Carlton and Khaild Bichou