Abstract
In a globalized marketplace, with dwindling transport costs and rising global sourcing, the volume of international trade has grown dramatically. Containerization has increasingly facilitated the transportation of goods. The annual growth rate of global container traffic has been around 10% in the last three decades. Operating in a global business environment, global manufacturers search for cheap manufacturing and assembling locations all over the world. The global production creates demand for container transport. For the container transport operator, delivering superior service value and strengthening ongoing relationships with customers and business partners are important goals to pursue. Container transport operators need to respond to evolving market changes in a timely manner. In the transportation economics’ literature, there has been growing interest over the last decade in exploring container transport operations. Since the introduction of container ships, container shipping has gone through successive high growth phases, almost independent of the development of the world economy. Due to globalization, all regions are competing in the global market. To meet market needs, there has been rationalization among container shipping firms in the form of alliances with the aim of enhancing their strengths in themarket in the hope of maximizing market share and minimizing running costs. On the other hand, globalization has resulted in increasingly large-scale operations and larger vessels needing more cargo to fill them. Furthermore, containerization contributes to the development of intermodal transport to combine the accessibility of inland transport modes with the economic line-haul capability of ocean shipping, leading to immense changes in the operation of global shipping operations. This volume of Research in Transportation Economics is devoted to publishing the latest and significant results of empirical research relating to operations management in the context of container transport. Papers are focused to address the following issues:
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