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Sustainability in Liner Shipping
2020The concept of sustainability has become increasingly significant and has forced companies to take sustainable measures because of the reduction of energy resources and operational efficiency, the increase in emission release, and environmental pollution. In addition, technological developments and globalization have also affected the maritime industry
Osman Arslan, Gönül Kaya Özbag
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Analyzing ship investment behaviour in liner shipping
Maritime Policy & Management, 2013This study analyzes capacity expansion and ship choice decisions. Theoretically, we derive the probability of capacity expansion as a function of market and company attributes and characterize the impacts of these factors on expansion decisions. Empirically, we analyze ship investment and ship choice behaviour using binary choice and nested logit ...
Lixian Fan, Meifeng Luo
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Optimisation in Container Liner Shipping
2017We will give an overview of several decision problem encountered in liner shipping. We will cover problems on the strategic, tactical and operational planning levels as well as problems that can be considered at two planning levels simultaneously. Furthermore, we will shortly discuss some related problems in terminals, geographical bottlenecks for ...
Mulder, Judith, Dekker, Rommert
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Rolling Seas in Liner Shipping
Review of Industrial Organization, 2002This paper examines the current economic environment and recent legislative changesin the U.S. international liner shipping industry, which has operated under antitrustimmunity for cartel agreements since 1916. Specifically, we address the impact ofthe Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) of 1998, which increased cartel enforcementcosts by reducing the ...
James D. Reitzes, Kelli L. Sheran
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Liner shipping development trends
Maritime Policy & Management, 2006The expansion of liner shipping paralleled developments in retailing and containerization introduced scale economics. The liner industry has moved into an era of prosperity, and containerships have been affecting demand for other ship types. Demand growth is generally taken for granted, but several factors have been putting pressure on smaller carriers,
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2012
Prior to addressing the matter concerning competition in liner shipping, we have preliminarily to understand what is meant by liner shipping, which is one of the two modalities for the carriage of goods by sea, the other being non-liner shipping, better known as “tramp” seaborne transportation of goods.
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Prior to addressing the matter concerning competition in liner shipping, we have preliminarily to understand what is meant by liner shipping, which is one of the two modalities for the carriage of goods by sea, the other being non-liner shipping, better known as “tramp” seaborne transportation of goods.
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Semi-liner Shipping Service Design
Transportation Science, 2020Semi-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
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Is Liner Shipping Supply Fixed? [PDF]
Maritime 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 ...
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Intercontinental Liner Shipping Service Design
Transportation Science, 2019Intercontinental liner container shipping service connects trades between different continents in the global logistic system. This paper proposes a single intercontinental service design problem that aims to jointly determine the optimal serviced ports from a set of candidate ports, the port rotation, the ship sailing speed on each voyage between ...
Yadong Wang, Qiang Meng, Haibo Kuang
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Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning
2015As production and demand wax and wane across the world, liner shipping networks must be constantly adjusted due to seasonal shifts in demand and to ensure that they are compatible with the current state of the world economy. Shipping lines must add, remove and modify existing routes in their network in order to keep it relevant for their customers ...
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