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Operating Capacity, Pricing and Supply Elasticity in Container Shipping Markets

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the channels through which changes in operating capacity influence freight rates in the container shipping market using a novel dataset to create an operating capacity index at the shipping‐route level. Our analysis reveals that when supply elasticity is low, an increase in operating capacity tends to drive freight rates upward,
Cong Sui   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Time Factor in Liner Shipping Services [PDF]

open access: yesMaritime Economics and Logistics, 2006
Managing the time factor is an important issue in contemporary liner service design. Increased port congestion and infrastructure constraints are some of the reasons impeding shipping lines from delivering impeccable liner services to their customers. Waiting times and delays put pressure on schedule reliability and might incur logistics costs to the ...
Theo E Notteboom
exaly   +4 more sources

Semi-liner Shipping Service Design

Transportation Science, 2020
Semi-liner shipping transports various types of cargo, such as containers, break-bulk cargo, and heavy-lift project cargo, between different ports. Similar to liner shipping, semi-liner shipping publishes shipping routes for customers’ reference. However, it does not strictly follow the published route and usually makes some adjustments for each ship ...
Yadong Wang, Qiang Meng
exaly   +2 more sources

Is Liner Shipping Supply Fixed? [PDF]

open access: yesMaritime Economics & Logistics, 2004
Liner shipping firms have long argued that the task of providing adequate service to shippers while earning reasonable rates of return on capital requires at least some form of limited antitrust immunity. Carriers contend that because scheduling requirements unique to liner shipping firms constrains their ability to adjust capacity to meet market ...
Mike Fusillo
openaire   +2 more sources

Disruption Recovery for a Vessel in Liner Shipping

Transportation Science, 2015
Container vessels in liner shipping are operated on closed-loop routes following a preannounced schedule. In practice, when a vessel embarks on a voyage on the sea, there are lots of uncertain factors that may delay a vessel from its original schedule, even if some uncertainty has been considered in the tactical network design.
Chen Li, Xiangtong Qi, Chung-Yee Lee
exaly   +3 more sources

Ship Scheduling and Network Design for Cargo Routing in Liner Shipping

Transportation Science, 2008
Acommon problem faced by carriers in liner shipping is the design of their service network. Given a set of demands to be transported and a set of ports, a carrier wants to design service routes for its ships as efficiently as possible, using the underlying facilities.
Özlem Ergun
exaly   +2 more sources

Container (Liner) Shipping

open access: yes, 2021
The establishment of world-embracing container shipping networks has facilitated globalization processes and associated global production and logistics practices.
Theo Notteboom, Notteboom, Theo
openaire   +3 more sources

Disruption Management for Liner Shipping

open access: yes, 2014
In many operations management problems, including vessel scheduling in liner shipping, people need to make and announce an operations plan in advance, with tremendous efforts being paid to optimize the plan. When the plan is executed in real time, however, it is constantly subject to different unexpected disruptions, making the original plan sub ...
Qi, Xiangtong, Xiangtong Qi
openaire   +3 more sources

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