Journal of Shipping & Trade

While the machinery automation system should mitigate the impact of emergency situations (e.g. fire and flooding) (Bureau Veritas 2019), the maintenance and repair system should also be reliable and ensure …

Data description Table 3 provides an overview of port operation variables. The average number of quay cranes is 4.76, with high variability (STD of 6.44), ranging from 0 to 20 …

Container port productivity changes: the Malmquist index and its decomposition As mentioned above, the Malmquist Productivity Change can decompose into two components: EFFCH, which captures the catch-up effect, and TECHCH, …

Seaports are characterized as multidimensional systems that directly connect cargo, ships, and cities and are influenced by and influence their environment. Sustainability is strategic by considering that port development must …

Event study methodology In this section, we present the results for the geopolitical events’ impact on LNG transitions through Suez Canal. Tables 3, 4, 5 and 6, show the CARs …

The LSNDP was proven to be an NP-hard problem by Brouer et al. (2014), considering the complexities of the traveling salesman and set-covering problems. To address this, we applied a …

Before the 2000s: beginning of e-commerce and the dot-com bubble The beginning of the internet and e-commerce The historical analysis (visualised in Fig. 2) begins by establishing the internet's and …

Materials Most of the datasets used for this study were obtained directly from the Port Management Association of West and Central Africa (PMAWCA) and the official websites of the individual …

Research papers mapping As described in Step 1 of the methodology, the data collection process was structured around a systematic keyword-based search within Google Scholar, targeting publications that specifically discussed …

Inland navigation in Europe In this section, a current overview of the inland waterway transportation system is provided, showing its current strengths and weaknesses. With over 41 thousand kilometres of …

In this section, we present our results. We start with an overview of the parameter values in Sect. “Parameter values”. In Sect. “Theoretical results” we present our theoretical results, which …

Based on the above, judges, when deciding about the status of online logistics platforms, need to answer two questions: (1) Does the platform meet the criteria of an information society …

Dataset characteristics The dataset used in this study consist of bi-annual company level data on ship management revenues and expenses collected by the Cyprus Shipping Chamber from its members. In …

For trade facilitation definition, it’s known that the primary objective of trade facilitation is to streamline the regulatory framework for international trade, with the aim of minimizing transaction costs. Concurrently, …

We assessed performance under varying traffic levels and numbers of available pilots by generating problem instances based on the physical layout of the St. Lawrence River and operational data from …

Modern trends in the use of container ship processing technologies Influence of automation on the quality of port operations During the research, there was used classification of automatic equipment, which …

In 2020, rail container transit delivered excellent service and proved its exceptional resilience and reliability, whereas other transport modes were burdened with rate volatility, capacity restrictions, and equipment shortages. Rail …

The core terminal attributes depicted in Fig. 4I are descriptive and have limited meaning on an individual basis. However, analyzing a large sample of 331 terminals reveals patterns across these …

Efficiency analysis through the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method originated with Farrell in 1957. This approach was subsequently recast as a mathematical programming challenge by Charnes et al. (1978). …

Following the systematic literature review and the QCA, 48 out of 85 scientific documents were selected for the analysis through manual screening. Most of them (80%) were peer-reviewed articles, with …

Solutions validated by the sector (e.g. digitalization Maersk Line, toolkit FIATA, D&D tool by Dockflow) do not solve the D&D issues (Storms et al. 2023). The methodological components presented in …

Inland shipping in Europe Inland shipping modal share has experienced a declining trend over the past six years in Europe, reaching a level of 5.8% in 2020, in contrast to …

As mentioned earlier, the main sides of international maritime shipping are listed as the demand side, supply side, and emissions. The results for each one will be discussed hereafter. The …

Background In recent times, disruptions in the global freight transport system, caused for example by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Evergiven accident, and the war in Ukraine, inflicted strong repercussions on …

Insights into how Covid-19 affected demand for transport at the aggregated level Table 1 gives an overview of the LSPs’ transport volumes (tonnes and NFM-estimated tonne-kms) for 2019 and 2020, …

Unit root test In time series analysis, it is essential to verify the stability of the analyzed sequence—specifically, whether it exhibits unit roots—before conducting regression analysis. Various methods are available …

The intermodal concept An alternative to the occasional unimodal transit shipping solution currently operating the NEP would be a scheduled intermodal transport solution. Intermodality involves using at least two different …

Nowadays, ports are exhibiting an increasing trend of freight volume mainly because of the “gigantism” phenomenon some authors describe in container shipping (Chuah et al. 2023; Haralambides 2019; Lupi et …

Descriptive statistics Descriptive statistics are essential for summarizing and interpreting the characteristics of the studies included in this systematic review, offering a comprehensive overview of the research landscape. These statistics …

To ascertain the impact of access to credit on the trade efficiency, a modified version of the gravity model extended to capture the effect of access to credit on trade …

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as …

Concerning shipping companies their profitability can come through two different modi operandi, namely asset play or shipping charters. Asset play is the business practice that the management of the company …

Due to the scope and specialization of the topic, systematic literature review protocols have been followedFootnote 1 with reference to reviewing the extant literature that is analysed in the present …

COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on shipping The complexity involved in successfully managing a shipping company includes several operational options that take the form of organic growth, mergers and acquisitions, …

Port-rail connectivity is a strategic element of port development in an economic context, as well as the reduction of negative externalities on the community and the environment. Proper rail connectivity …

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as …

Academic insights on maritime decarbonization funding A structural academic literature review was conducted, consisting of a comprehensive three-step process, integrating database selection, keyword identification, and paper selection based on stringent …

Many factors in the logistics of grain, coal and fertiliser exporting are related to the differences in loading time variability among the commodities. The factors range from inherent characteristics in …

The literature review has proved that little research has been dedicated to regulation for autonomous IWT (Bačkalov 2020; Nzengu et al. 2021), while research on liability is completely absent. As …

Research on digitalization and digital innovation in maritime industry is considered as immature but of growing interest (Jian et al. 2022; Nikitakos and Lambrou 2007; Jenssen and Randøy 2002; Jenssen …

Academic insights on maritime decarbonization funding A structural academic literature review was conducted, consisting of a comprehensive three-step process, integrating database selection, keyword identification, and paper selection based on stringent …

In reporting the results, for the sake of clarity we group the 32 regions analyzed into five macro-categories according to their trade status (in Additional file 1: Appendix A—Table 4), …

The Year 1 workshop was implemented in Limassol, Cyprus in October 2021, whereas the Year 2 workshop took place in Nicosia, Cyprus in October 2022, as a side event to …

This research utilizes quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. The choice of a quantitative method for data collection can be justified for the following reasons. Firstly, quantitative data on …

This section of the paper reports and discusses the interpretation of the estimated coefficients obtained from the system-Generalized Method of Moments estimation technique in two parts. The first part focuses …

Data description This article chooses the SC cargo trade annual data given by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) from 1990 to 2022, for a total of 33 periods of available …

Articles retrieved during the literature review process are categorized across the three broadly defined research themes, presented in Section "Digitalization and human resource management". It is important to note that …

Although there is some scepticism among various groups on the importance of free trade, there is a consensus among economists that freer trade generates trade efficiency gains (Doan and Xing …

This section analyzes the five mechanisms through which Maersk’s FDI in Vietnam may have influenced Vietnam’s export performance: Building infrastructure Building a container shipping and logistics infrastructure emerged during interviews …

Bibliographic analysis VOSviewer software was utilized to develop the bibliographic analysis (van Eck and Waltman 2010). Figure 1 shows the distribution of the papers published by year starting from 1994 …