Academic research on port competitiveness has so far focused on the identification of the
drivers of port competitiveness and their measurement. This paper argues that the port …

The maritime industry has been continuously transforming the nature of its business and
striving to embrace technology in many aspects. In this context, autonomous technologies …

In light of the growing supply chain power of 3PLs and very limited empirical studies on port
choice from the freight forwarders' perspective, this paper tries to evaluate the major factors …

The European container port system features a unique blend of different port types and sizes
combined with a vast economic hinterland. This paper provides an update of the detailed …

Most of the literature on port choice has focused mostly on the views of carriers (and
indirectly of cargo owners). We venture here to discover whether the choice criteria used by …

We investigate two competing carriers' incentives of horizontal alliance and values of vertical
cooperation in a one-to-two shipping service competition model, where two carriers may …

In the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, how to promote blockchain technology to improve the
efficiency of port customs clearance and logistics transparency has become a hot research …

This paper studies the comparison of two kinds of port regulation modes–the centralization
mode and the decentralization mode–using principal-agent theory and dynamic game …

Ocean shipping (OS) and inland shipping (IS) are vertically complementary services in the
shipping supply chain. In practice, we have observed that both OS and IS companies …

As a new source to increase profits, some ocean shipping (OS) companies are beginning to
encroach on the downstream market to canvass for cargoes, which would form a co …