Maritime Business Review: Volume 2 Issue 2 , Open Access

The impact of shipyard and shipowner heterogeneity on contracting prices in the newbuilding market

Roar Adland, Kristian Norland, Even Sætrevik

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of shipyard and shipowner heterogeneity on the price formation for individual newbuilding contracts.

Key success factors of international market development: An empirical study of the Taiwan bulk shipping industry

Hsiu-Fen Lin, Kai-Lin Chang

The purpose of this paper is to develop an evaluation model to determine the relative weights of key factors influencing international market development (IMD) success through…

Determining the contribution of distraction factors on Malaysian seafarers using a systematic average mean value

Mohammad Khairuddin Othman, Noorul Shaiful Fitri Abdul Rahman, Mohd Naim Fadzil

The purpose of this study is to determine the distraction factors based on their contributions in affecting seafarers’ physical and psychological well-being.

Location of regional and international hub ports in liner shipping

Jianfeng Zheng, Cong Fu, Haibo Kuang

This paper aims to investigate the location of regional and international hub ports in liner shipping by proposing a hierarchical hub location problem.

An inland-depots-for-empty-containers-model for the hinterland

Stephanie Finke, Herbert Kotzab

The purpose of this paper is to figure out in which way a hinterland-based inland depot model can help a shipping company in solving the empty container problem at a regional…

A novel continuous berth scheduling model at multiple marine container terminals with tidal considerations

Ali Dadashi, Maxim A. Dulebenets, Mihalis M. Golias, Abdolreza Sheikholeslami

The paper aims to propose a new mathematical model for allocation and scheduling of vessels at multiple marine container terminals of the same port, considering the access channel…

Strategic positioning analysis of Spanish cruise ports

Jeronimo Esteve-Perez, Antonio Garcia-Sanchez

Cruise traffic has dynamically advanced worldwide over the past two decades. This maritime business and tourism typology is strongly concentrated in several links that comprise…