Shipping is a highly internationalised industry working in an increasingly globalised environment. Meanwhile, policy-making in shipping continues to be formulated within a traditional nested hierarchy of jurisdictions that pays little attention to new relationships that exist and intensify...

A model is developed to identify the comparative positioning of Turkish ferry operators vis-a-vis their European Union competitors in the Eastern Mediterranean market. Given the nature of the ferry business, the model is based on principles of service marketing. The paper concentrates on the...

This paper presents a normative model for efficient goods movement promoting supply chain integration in developing economies. Supply chains encompass a holistic throughput of goods movements to and from partner organisations including internal and external suppliers. Similarly, multimodal...

This paper considers the empty container management problem in a cyclic shipping route. The objective is to seek the optimal empty container repositioning policy in a dynamic and stochastic situation by minimising the expected total costs consisting of inventory holding costs, demand lost-sale...

This article formulates the empty container repositioning problem for general shipping service routes based on container flow balancing. Two types of flow balancing mechanisms are analysed. The first is based on point-to-point balancing, which leads to a point-to-point repositioning policy. The...