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  2. Despite the extensive research on container port efficiency, the impact of port organizational reforms on productivity and efficiency in lower-middle-income countries remains underexplored, with most studies f...

    Authors: Caleb Danladi, Sarah Tuck, Panagiotis Tziogkidis, Lijun Tang and Chukwuneke Okorie
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:18
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  3. This essay reviews and contextualizes the Best Practices Guide for Port Sustainability: An ESG Strategy (2023), a pioneering initiative aimed at institutionalizing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) prin...

    Authors: Cassia Bomer Galvao, Leo Tadeu Robles, Sergio Sampaio Cutrim and Raul Lamarca
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:16
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  5. Cooperation between ports is known to enhance their competitiveness. This study aims to reveal changes in the global shipping network structure and evaluate the competitiveness of cooperating ports in the ship...

    Authors: Hoshi Tagawa, Kashin Sugishita and Shinya Hanaoka
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:15
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  6. Building on an integrated historical and conceptual overview of scholarly and industry sources, this paper examines the evolution and transformation of e-commerce. It traces the development of e-commerce from ...

    Authors: Stijn Michielsen, Roel Gevaers and Wouter Dewulf
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:14
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  11. The legal framework in logistics depends on a liability exposure that is attached to service providers (legal status). However, mandatory (which cannot be avoided with the parties’ agreement) and facultative (...

    Authors: Marta K. Kołacz and Wouter Verheyen
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:9
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  12. We propose a revenue test model for measuring the level of competition in the ship management industry. In addition to revenues, the model incorporates information on the structure of expenditures required in ...

    Authors: Antonis A. Michis
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:8
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  13. The research aims to examine the extent to which trade facilitation impacts bilateral trade in the India–Middle East–Europe economic corridor. By utilizing cross-sectional data from the year 2022 and applying ...

    Authors: Saber Adly Shaker
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:7
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  14. This study presents a novel decision support process for a pilot dispatching problem in the St. Lawrence River. It integrates a comprehensive set of time-based performance measures, including working time, wai...

    Authors: Milad Hematian, Jean-François Audy and Mikael Rönnqvist
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:6
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  15. New way of formalizing hybrid systems in models for managing the vessel unloading process is caused by the significant increase in container transportation around the world over the past decade. The growth of ...

    Authors: L. Nikolaieva Luidmyla, Y. Omelchenko Taras and V. Haichenia Oleksandr
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:5
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  16. The paper provides a systemic analysis of the layout characteristics of a geodatabase comprised of a large sample of 331 global container terminals. Despite the propensity towards terminal standardization that...

    Authors: Jean-Paul Rodrigue
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:4
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  17. This paper deals with the potential of the different modes of transport on the Eurasian connection, focusing on rail, and comparing with sea and air. Since 2008, a substantial uptake of the rail connection has...

    Authors: Seyed Mohseni, Edwin van Hassel and Thierry Vanelslander
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:3
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  19. There is a growing need for seaports to find ways to reduce the air pollution they generate. A wide range of potential best practices exist, but what lies behind the decision to implement them? Prior studies h...

    Authors: Flóra Zsuzsanna Gulyás and Aseem Kinra
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2025 10:1
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. Usage of containers beyond the predetermined period results in container demurrage and detention (D&D) that is charged by the carriers. The D&D charges are often perceived as a profit-making revenue stream for...

    Authors: Marta K. Kołacz, Katrien Storms, Christa Sys and Wouter Verheyen
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:31
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  23. We present a new model for estimating the distribution of international freight transport over transport modes that is directly applicable to aggregated data, allows estimations and predictions also when some ...

    Authors: Onno Hoffmeister and Bernhard Dalheimer
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:28
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  24. The present article investigates corona crisis disruptions and consequences for freight transport demand, using shipment data from major logistic service providers in Norway, as well as interviews. We investig...

    Authors: Inger Beate Hovi and Daniel Ruben Pinchasik
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:27
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  25. An economy’s primary objective is to foster high economic growth, ultimately enhancing the well-being of its citizens. Recent economic strategies have increasingly emphasized trade-oriented policies to achieve...

    Authors: A. H. M. Mehbub Anwar, Mohammad Altelmesani and Abdulrahman Alwosheel
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:26
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  26. Intermodality is regarded as one way of achieving more sustainable transport solutions. To make intermodal transport the preferred solution among shippers, it must be attractive according to the concept of gen...

    Authors: Alina Kovalenko, Terje Andreas Mathisen and Jeroen Pruyn
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:25
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  27. The extension of existing container terminals or the creation of new ones introduces new logistical challenges, including topographic issues and increased distances between the quays and storage yards located ...

    Authors: Ludwig Dumetz, Jean-François Audy, Mikael Rönnqvist and Riadh Azouzi
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:24
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  28. Effective ground transportation modes linkage with the seaport plays a crucial role in facilitating smooth cargo movement from marine transportation mode to the inland areas and vice versa. Unlike road transpo...

    Authors: Tareq Abu-Aisha, Jean-François Audy and Mustapha Ouhimmou
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  29. This paper examines the impact of access to finance on intra-Africa trade efficiency using a panel dataset comprising 44 African exporters. Between 2008 and 2021, a stochastic frontier version of the gravity m...

    Authors: Brian Tavonga Mazorodze
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:22
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  32. The technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution. We adopt a machine learning approach to examine the effect of IoT technology on shipping business op...

    Authors: Kelly Gerakoudi, Georgios Kokosalakis and Peter J. Stavroulakis
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:19
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  33. Shipping is a highly cyclical, volatile, and unpredictable industry. In recent history, economic shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic have heavily disrupted supply chains and tested the resilience and adaptabilit...

    Authors: Enrico D’agostini, Sohyun Jo and Maria Attard
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:18
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  34. Sea-rail intermodal transportation around the globe faces complex challenges that affect the satisfaction of shippers' needs. An efficient cargo flow between the port and its hinterland depends particularly on...

    Authors: Tareq Abu-Aisha, Jean-Francois Audy and Mustapha Ouhimmou
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:17
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  38. HRM is forced to adapt and reinvent its practices towards more innovative and creative frameworks and models, due to the impetus technological developments in the modern business environment. The same applies ...

    Authors: Ioannis N. Theotokas, Ioannis N. Lagoudis, Athina Syntychaki and John Prosilias
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:13
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  39. The decarbonization of the shipping industry is a critical imperative in the global fight against climate change. Non-EU countries, being significant contributors to shipping emissions, play a crucial role in...

    Authors: Sedat Baştuğ, Ersin Fırat Akgül, Hercules Haralambides and Theo Notteboom
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:12
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:16

  40. This study assesses the potential macro-economic effects of climate change affecting operations in three maritime chokepoints, i.e., the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and the Turkish Straits. The analysis focu...

    Authors: Ramon Key, Ramiro Parrado, Elisa Delpiazzo, Richard King and Francesco Bosello
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:11
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  41. Every year, up to 0.3 million tonnes of waste from the European shipping industry is not properly delivered at ports. Most of the waste produced by the shipping industry is plastic waste, putting plastics at t...

    Authors: X. I. Loizidou, M. I. Loizides, D. L. Orthodoxou and D. Petsa
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:10
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  43. Ports play a significant role in facilitating international trade and economic development, serving as vital gateways for the movement of goods across the continent and beyond. As global trade volumes continue...

    Authors: Enock Kojo Ayesu and Kofi Ampah Bennin Boateng
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:8
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  44. Container ports play a pivotal role in international trade, facilitating the movement of goods and fostering economic development. While much attention has been given to the efficiency of ports in high-income ...

    Authors: Caleb Danladi, Sarah Tuck, Panagiotis Tziogkidis, Lijun Tang and Chukwuneke Okorie
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:7
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  45. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges that appear in maritime human resource management, in the face of the digitalized environment in maritime business, due to the diffusion of new technologi...

    Authors: Ioannis N. Theotokas, Ioannis N. Lagoudis and Konstantina Raftopoulou
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:6
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:21

  46. Regional integration in Africa is deepening, and the existing regional groupings are making frantic efforts to remove barriers to trade. One way in which trade among countries can be promoted is through the es...

    Authors: Stein Masunda and Gabriel Mhonyera
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:5
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  47. This paper assesses the role shipping and logistics foreign direct investment (FDI) plays in developing country export performance, exemplified by the case of the large multinational corporation (MNC) Maersk’s...

    Authors: Majbritt Greve and Michael Wendelboe Hansen
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:4
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  48. Over the years, the demand for transportation has experienced a consistent rise, which has exacerbated a multitude of issues including environmental, visual, and noise pollution, congestion, land use conflicts...

    Authors: N. Calderón-Rivera, I. Bartusevičienė and F. Ballini
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Modern cargo vessel transport constitutes an important part of global economy; hence it is of paramount importance to develop novel, more efficient reliability methods for cargo ships, especially if onboard re...

    Authors: Oleg Gaidai, Fang Wang, Yu Cao and Zirui Liu
    Citation: Journal of Shipping and Trade 2024 9:1
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