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Challenges and opportunities for Korea's shipping industry in the era of globalization: The impact of financial crisis from 1998 to 2003

open access: yesAsian Journal of Shipping and Logistics
The Korean shipping industry, which underwent consolidation of shipping companies in the 1980s, continued to grow with the recovery of the global economy from the late 1980s to the first half of the 1990s. The civilian government that came to power after
Sung June Kim
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Default Risk and Firm Value of Shipping & Logistics Firms in Korea

open access: yesAsian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2017
As shipping and logistics industry is one of the core industries in Korea, the volume was ranked in the fifth highest in the world. However, shipping and logistics industry of Korea has suffered from default risk since Global Financial Crisis in 2008 ...
Hyun Jung Nam, Yo Han An
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Ships and relationships: Competition, geographical proximity, and relations in the shipping industry

open access: yesJournal of Business Research, 2019
Geographical and industry proximity are positively correlated with the likelihood of relationship formation. However, studies of this interrelationship are scarce, have yielded mixed results, and have failed to unveil the mechanisms behind the effects of different types of proximity and their links with tie formation.
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Corporate cash holdings in the shipping industry [PDF]

open access: yesTransportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2018
We examine the corporate cash holdings of listed shipping companies and show that shipping firms hold more cash than similar firms in other asset-heavy industries. Higher cash holdings in the shipping industry are not attributable to firm- or country-level characteristics, but rather to the higher marginal value of cash.
Ahrends, M., Drobetz, W., Nomikos, N.
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Exploring decarbonization priorities for sustainable shipping: A natural language processing-based experiment

open access: yesSustainable Futures
The shipping industry is currently the sixth largest contributor to global emissions, responsible for one billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Urgent action is needed to achieve carbon neutrality in the shipping industry for sustainability.
Enna Hirata   +2 more
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Value migration: digitalization of shipping as a mechanism of industry dethronement

open access: yesJournal of Shipping and Trade, 2020
In this conceptual paper, we review latest developments related to unmanned vessels and sketch potential scenarios that implicate with the existing maritime industry structure.
Konstantinos Poulis   +3 more
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A cross-entropy algorithm based on Quasi-Monte Carlo estimation and its application in hull form optimization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, 2021
Simulation-based hull form optimization is a typical HEB (high-dimensional, expensive computationally, black-box) problem. Conventional optimization algorithms easily fall into the “curse of dimensionality” when dealing with HEB problems.
Xin Liu   +4 more
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Container repositioning management in liner shipping industry [PDF]

open access: yesManagement Science Letters, 2013
Managing empty containers in shipping industry plays an important role to increase the profitability on marine shipping industry. This paper presents an empirical investigation to detect influential factors in container transportation and estimates the ...
Nasser Saeidi   +3 more
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Improving a Firm's Performance within a Strategic Shipping Alliance

open access: yesAsian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2019
Shipping companies have proactively participated in various strategic alliances within the industry to improve their competitive advantage. Previous studies have addressed how shipping companies gain benefits from strategic alliances.
Eon-Seong Lee
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Effect of heat treatment on the microstructure and mechanical properties of CX stainless steel fabricated by selective laser melting

open access: yesScientific Reports
A novel Corrax (CX) stainless steel was fabricated using the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process. This study examined the influence of heat treatment processes on the microstructure and mechanical properties of CX stainless steel. Results indicate that
Shaoqian Wu   +7 more
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