Liner shipping cascading effect on Southern African Development Community port strategies

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

Management of Seafarers in Liner Shipping Industry

 The use of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in the form of ‘bundles’ and in integration with the business strategy of the organisation have been emphasised throughout the HRM literature. These are called the horizontal integration and vertical integration respectively. This article aim at examining the use of these practices in liner shipping industry in which human element plays a vi...

Optimization in container liner shipping

We will gives an overview of several decision problem encountered in liner shipping. We will cover problems on the strategic, tactical and operational planning levels as well as problems that can be considered at two planning levels simultaneously. Furthermore, we will shortly discuss some related problems in terminals, geographical bottlenecks for container ships and provide an overview of ope...

Multi-objective optimization for planning liner shipping service with uncertain port times

This paper considers a joint tactical planning problem for the number of ships, the planned maximum sailing speed, and the liner service schedule in order to simultaneously optimize the expected cost, the service reliability and the shipping emission in the presence of port time uncertainty. The problem is formulated into a stochastic multi-objective optimization problem at the operational leve...

Liner shipping connectivity as determinant of trade

Transport connectivity is a crucial determinant of bilateral exports. This paper presents an empirical assessment of the relationship between bilateral maritime liner shipping connectivity and exports in containerizable goods during the period 2006–2013. Making use of probed “gravity” type trade models, the paper incorporates new data on different measurements of maritime distance, as well as a...