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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Liner shipping"”.
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The liner shipping industry : strategies for survival
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Strategy alliances in the liner shipping industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994.
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Implications of Bunker Consumption Monitoring in Liner Shipping
The Thesis researches how accommodation specific dynamic positioning (DP) simulator courses can be developed. The purpose of the study was to identify critical elements during advanced marine DP operations and which to include in a simulator training course. The aim was to minimize risk and …
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Designing Liner Shipping Feeder Service Networks in the New Era of Mega Containerships
Spätestens seit der Einführung von Mega-Containerschiffen planen Reedereien ihre Netzwerke für die Container-Linienschifffahrt nach dem 'Hub-and-Spoke'-Prinzip, um ihre Verbindungen zu regionalen Märkten zu stärken und die operativen Kosten für Kurzstrecken mit niedrigem Frachtvolumen zu …
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Development of a Sustainability Framework for Liner Shipping: A Study in South Korea
… trade. The significance of sustainability within shipping has expanded considerably, as the industry generates substantial socio-environmental effects attributable to its operational scale. This imperative underscores the necessity for a framework to systematically monitor, assess, and manage …
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Strategic Risk and Reliability Assessment in the Container Liner Shipping Industry Under High Uncertainties
The container liner shipping industry (CLSI) can be defined as one consisting of a fleet of vessels that provides a fixed service at regular intervals between ports of call. It is noteworthy that the CLSI is remarkably acting as an artery in making contributions to the growth of the global economy. …
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Private regimes and legitimacy : the politics of self-regulation in liner shipping and international standardization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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Comparative study of logistics services in the container liner shipping market in the U.K. and South Korea
… changes of business environment, certain liner shipping companies have claimed that what they are providing is a 'logistics service' rather than a 'traditional shipping service'. It was found that there is a shortage of discussion in existing literature related to the liner shipping …
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Historical and current juridical aspects of cooperation between international scheduled liner shipping organisations: a South African perspective
Shipping companies involved in the scheduled liner shipping trade are essentially concerned with providing a regular ocean transport service to shippers. This service consists of a fixed sailing pattern on a publicised schedule operating on a specific geographic trade route. It is essentially a …
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Economies of Scale in International Liner Shipping and Ongoing Industry Consolidation: an Application of Stigler's Survivorship Principle
The international liner shipping industry has been undergoing major structural changes caused by a number of factors. Liner companies have responded to these challenges by engaging in mergers and acquisitions and by forming global strategic alliances. Many of these organizational changes have …
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CONTAINER TRANSPORTATION NETWORK MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION
… four tactical-level decision problems for liner shipping companies are addressed: fleet deployment, sailing speed optimization, ship route schedule design, and liner shipping network design. These decision problems focus on different aspects of liner shipping services with different inputs …
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Shipping conferences and antitrust exemption in North America from a Canadian perspective: New life in an old debate
Transport Canada defines shipping conferences (herein "conferences") as follows: "Ocean liner shipping companies [which] offer regularly scheduled ocean transportation services, as opposed to irregular or non-liner services, primarily consisting of the carriage of containerized cargo rather than …
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Strategic firm behavior and entry deterrence: three essays
… the role of exclusive dealing contracts in the liner shipping industry is investigated. It is shown that if the entrant is capacity-constrained, exclusive dealing contracts can be an effective entry barrier, even if the entrant has a lower cost. Chapter 2considers an industry with two stages of …
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Equilibrium characterization for resource allocation games on single-path serial networks
… application of this type of networks for liner shipping and highways, that is to say situations where there is a single-path of interest for every player.
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Game theoretical offshore container port competition
… are desired to provide viability of reliable liner shipping service. Therefore, port competition to supply better port services is one of the natural consequences of the container transport evolution in the globalisation era. This thesis offers a port competition analysis as total …
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Port competitiveness in North East Asia : an integrated fuzzy approach to expert evaluations
… can be regarded as holding a central position in liner shipping and the handling of container cargo volumes, very little research has been done into the evaluation of its port competitiveness (EPC). For this reason, the EPC in NEA can be regarded as a problematic and urgent issue to be solved, and …
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The Organization and Regulation of International Shipping Cartels
"The international liner shipping industry is organized into cartels and has been for over one hundred years. This thesis consists of two parts: the first analyzes the shipping conference phenomenon from the perspective of industrial organization, and the second evaluates the regulation of the …