This paper attempts to uncover and compare the macroeconomic determinants of the stock returns of US listed water transportation companies to those of other transport sectors over the period July 1985 – June 1995; these involve air transportation, rail transportation and trucks. Other...

This study investigates determinants of the oil spillage, vessel damage, and other-property damage costs of U.S. inland waterway tank barge accidents and their relationships. The tobit estimation of a three-equation recursive model suggests that type of accident, cause of accident, operating...

This study considers the maritime transport industry as a part of the international marketing system and analyses the factors affecting the competitive advantage of exporters as customers of the industry. Turkey is a leading exporter of dried fruits -the locus of this study- and maritime...

This paper presents a methodology for determining efficient tariffs for the services provided by commercial ports. With this method, efficient unit profits can be obtained for the services offered and their margins of sensitivity can be found. This allows port authorities to determine what...

When point-to-point markets cannot support direct service in the container trade, shipping lines need to make decisions about transhipment locations. Where to tranship is, at the start, a geographical question. This paper reviews a few of the geographer's descriptive, analytical and conceptual...

Shipping uses brokers extensively. Shipbrokers typically act as intermediaries matching sellers and buyers of vessels or transport services. This paper analyses the characteristics of shipbrokers' contribution to market efficiency. Shipbrokers mainly contribute by a) speeding up search and...

We analyse the competitive performance of yards within the U.S. shipbuilding industry based on historical order book data. The large U.S. yards that survived the recent industry contraction have done so by achieving a good product mix and remaining competitive in the quest for military...