Strategic alliances are the most common type of collaboration agreement used by ship**
lines to provide worldwide maritime container transport services. Since their first appearance …

The derived demand for maritime transport has evolved from a demand for the possession of
goods to an integrated demand for the possession of goods that have been added value …

Although there is widespread recognition of the potential of ports as logistics centres, widely
accepted performance measurements for such centres have yet to be developed. The …

The economic crisis in the years between 2008 and 2010 has demonstrated the necessity
for substantial adjustments on behalf of container lines. Capacities were shifted quickly to …

Ship** lines are under pressure to expand the geographical reach of their services and to
invest in value added services. The former, addressed by a number of strategies including …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to carry out a critical assessment of empirical research
content in supply chain management (SCM). The assessment involved 569 empirical …

In the last decade, the port economics literature has given great emphasis to the Supply
Chain Management approach as the new paradigm for the definition of port …

This study introduces a state-of-the-art volatility forecasting method for container ship**
freight rates. Over the last decade, the container ship** industry has become very …

This paper investigates the impacts of maritime piracy on global economic development.
Calibrated with data between 2003 and 2008, we model ship** demands and competition …

This paper offers a tool for analysing patterns of maritime supply chains. The study uses
empirical data on slot capacity deployed by container ship** lines for analysing ports (as …