Gigantism in container shipping, ports and global logistics: a time-lapse into the future

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Published on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 05:23

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• 1 Introduction

• 2 Shipping and economic development

• 3 Bulk and liner shipping

• 4 Containerization: the kindle wood below modern logistics and port reform

• 5 Chasing the “Holy Grail” of economies of scale in shipping

• 6 Optimum containership size

• 7 The ‘sweating port’: diseconomies of scale in ports and along the supply chain

• 8 The “second scenario” and (a brief note on) global shipping alliances

• 9 The “second scenario” and hub-and-spoke systems in container transport

• 10 Ship and terminal productivity and the question of optimum speed

• 11 Ship and terminal productivity revisited

• 12 The fortunes to be made by optimizing speed

• 13 Market structure in container shipping

• 14 Carrier strategies

• 15 Market power: econometric studies43

• 16 Concentration in container shipping and contestable markets

• 17 In lieu of conclusions

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