In their decisions, seaport stakeholders internalize various factors that intervene in seaport competitiveness. The literature emphasizes that such seaport characteristics are important in the stakeholder choice of seaports. Given today’s competitive environment, it becomes imperative that...

A container terminal is devoted to transfer containers from sea to land and vice versa in the most efficient way. The main objective of a container terminal is to optimize, in terms of times and costs, the activities related to container handling and forwarding. As regards the hinterland side, a...

This article presents a new simulation-based meta-model to support logistics providers in sizing transhipment systems. The meta-model is made up of: a user interface with database (where system elements and their parameters are specified); a library of objects (which represent all the elements...

The inland repositioning of empty containers is a crucial problem for shipping companies providing door-to-door transport services to customers. This activity consists of the allocation of heterogeneous fleets of empty containers between inland depots and ports, so that they can be properly...

Despite the interest shown by many authors in ocean carriers’ strategies and operations, only a few contributions have tried to evaluate the impact of growth strategies on firms’ performance and profitability. This article, adopting a holistic approach, measures the impact of growth...

Ports play a vital role in international transport logistics systems, where they serve as links between shipping and inland transport. With the growing development of the logistics industry in the East Asian region, the role of international port logistics centers (IPLCs) is becoming...

This study employs two versions of bivariate asymmetric mixed normal GARCH models to capture the skewness and kurtosis detected in both the conditional and unconditional return distributions of dry bulk freight rates. The empirical results, incorporating the long memory effect on the returns,...

Offshore support vessels (OSVs) play an important role in the offshore oil and gas industry with significant benefit to the coastal communities that provide the labor and materials to construct, crew and support the logistics network. OSVs connect onshore material and equipment suppliers and...