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Liner Shipping and Technological Innovation: Ostasiat and the Container Revolution, 1963–75

Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2007
Abstract This article examines the implications of technological innovation on liner shipping. In the 1960s and early 1970s, containerisation revolutionised liner shipping. The article asks how a well-established liner company, AB Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet, responded to the challenges of the container revolution.
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Empty container reposition planning for intra-Asia liner shipping

Maritime Policy & Management, 2008
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.
Cheng-Min Feng, Chia-Hui Chang
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Horizontal integration in container liner shipping

2018
Our chapter is to study the situation of container liner shipping, one of the most important modes of international transportation. We concentrate on the strategic decisions of operators in order to survive and grow in the bitter market. To seek competitive advantage, shipping lines have made use of various strategies such as capacity expansion, merger
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Literature survey of network optimization in container liner shipping

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2013
Container liner shipping is one of the most important transportation modes in international trade. The industry is network-based, so network decision contributes much to the success of any operators. There are many decisions in respect of network optimization such as route and schedule design, port selection, fleet size and mix, fleet assignment and ...
Nguyen Khoi Tran, Hans-Dietrich Haasis
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Strategic flexibility capabilities in the container liner shipping sector

Production Planning & Control, 2012
This paper aims to develop the construct of freight transport flexibility. Specifically, it explores the notion of freight transport flexibility from the perspective of the major liner operators in the container shipping industry. The research is designed around a structured methodology to system enquiry, namely the ‘understand, document, simplify ...
Robert Mason, Rawindaran Nair
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Liner Shipping Cargo Allocation with Repositioning of Empty Containers

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, 2011
Abstract This paper is concerned with the cargo allocation problem considering empty repositioning of containers for a liner shipping company. The aim is to maximize the profit of transported cargo in a network, subject to the cost and availability of empty containers.
Berit Dangaard Brouer, David Pisinger, Simon Spoorendonk   +2 more
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Weekly container delivery patterns in liner shipping planning models

Maritime Policy & Management, 2017
ABSTRACTThis paper addresses a fundamental question related to nearly all container liner shipping planning models: whether the implicit assumption of identical container delivery pattern every week is valid in a situation of identical shipping services and identical cargo demand every week.
Wang, S, Liu, Z, Qu, X
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Research on Time Reliability of Container Liner Shipping Network

2009 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation, 2009
A calculation model for time reliability of container liner shipping network was made based on existing research on time reliability about other transportation networks and own character of container liner shipping networks. Simulation method was used to improve the efficiency of calculation.
Peijian Wu, Guishi Deng, Wei Tian
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Optimal port call adjustment for liner container shipping routes

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019
Abstract Container shipping companies usually alter their shipping networks in response to the seasonally changing shipping demand and freight rate. Rather than redesigning their shipping networks from scratch, they often choose to make small adjustments to the shipping routes by skipping some ports or adding additional calls to several ports ...
Yadong Wang, Qiang Meng, Peng Jia
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Supply‐side strategic flexibility capabilities in container liner shipping

The International Journal of Logistics Management, 2013
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which supply side flexibility tactics are deployed by operators in the container liner shipping sector in 2009/200 to restrict supply in a market which is characterised by over‐supply (as well as under demand).Design/methodology/approachTaking a case study approach using the Far East‐Europe ...
Robert Mason, Rawindaran Nair
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