Green shipping practices and firm performance

Global economic development is facilitated by the commercial shipping industry. Shipping operations contribute to the growth of international trade activities, which heavily count on ships to carry cargoes from places of production to places of consumption. Despite its importance, there have been growing concerns about the environmental impacts caused by shipping activities in international trade. To balance environmental protection and productivity, many shipping firms have begun to adopt green shipping practices (GSPs) to improve their operations in a more environmentally friendly manner. GSP consists of six dimensions, namely, company policy and procedure (CPP), shipping documentation (SD), shipping equipment (SE), shipper cooperation (SC), shipping materials (SM), and shipping design and compliance (SDC). GSP is becoming an important aspect of shipping operations. It is timely for the shipping industry to evaluate firm capability in carrying out greening operations, that is, firms’ “greening” capability. Firm capability comprises two key elements: one is embedded in firms’ business routines or activities, and the other concerns firms’ ability in transforming inputs into outputs. GSPs can be considered as inputs while firm performance measures as outputs. This study uses an input/output approach to examine the greening capability (GC) of shipping firms. The results indicate that shipping firms are relatively weak in the practices of SC and SE, while the capability scores of SM, CPP, SDC, and SD are all close to 1, with an average score of 0.927, 0.920, 0.924, and 0.978, respectively. Academic and managerial significance of the findings are highlighted.     

国际集装箱运输业战略联盟分析

通过对国际集装箱运输业战略联盟发展演变和战略联盟主要形式的分析,来揭示战略联盟形成的原因,以及战略联盟与国际集装箱运输业的发展.     

国际集装箱运输业战略联盟分析

通过对国际集装箱运输业战略联盟发展演变和战略联盟主要形式的分析,来揭示战略联盟形成的原因,以及战略联盟与国际集装箱运输业的发展。     

国际集装箱运输发展趋势及经营对策

1 我国市场迅速增长，成为全球举足轻重的集装箱货源生成地 自2001年我国正式加入WTO以来，随着全球产业分工、制造业转移，我国对外贸易快速发展。海关统计显示，2002--2007年我国对外贸易连续保持20％以上的高增长率，2007年我国外贸总额继续稳居全球第3位，其中出口跃居世界第2位。经贸强势推动我国班轮运输市场快速崛起，2007年全国主要港口集装箱吞吐量首次突破1亿TEU，达到1．12亿TEU，比上年增长22％，接近全球港口集装箱吞吐量的1／4（见图1）。     

对全球集装箱航运产业衰退现象的思考

从全球集装箱航运产业的衰退状况出发,提出托运人与班轮公司应互相协助促进集装箱航运市场发展,介绍马士基集装箱班轮公司的"重点产品升级"业务。     

Strategic alliances in the container shipping industry: a global perspective

This paper examines developments in container shipping in light of the formation of strategic alliances by many of the leading companies. It focuses on three features: the transformation of services, the evolution of the fleet, and the adjustments made to the ports of call. These elements are analysed on a global basis for 3 years: 1989, 1994 and 1999. Some of the changes wrought by the alliances are identified, including the spread and intensification of services, and the deployment of the largest vessels on alliance routes. While the individual companies that have come together in alliances are serving many more ports than before, it is also demonstrated that the total number of ports served by the industry has remained constant. The results are interpreted in the context of globalization that is tending to impose greater standardization on the container shipping industry.     

桥吊海上运输中的装载、系固与安全管理问题

结合大连重工起重集团码头驳船装载整机桥吊、门吊等重大件系固作业的实际情况,对海运桥吊、门吊的装载、系固问题进行初步分析,并提出安全管理建议.     

Strategic alliances in the container shipping industry: a global perspective

This paper examines developments in container shipping in light of the formation of strategic alliances by many of the leading companies. It focuses on three features: the transformation of services, the evolution of the fleet, and the adjustments made to the ports of call. These elements are analysed on a global basis for 3 years: 1989, 1994 and 1999. Some of the changes wrought by the alliances are identified, including the spread and intensification of services, and the deployment of the largest vessels on alliance routes. While the individual companies that have come together in alliances are serving many more ports than before, it is also demonstrated that the total number of ports served by the industry has remained constant. The results are interpreted in the context of globalization that is tending to impose greater standardization on the container shipping industry.     

Impact of the container security initiative on Taiwan's shipping industry

This paper evaluates the impact of risk factors from the container security initiative on Taiwan's shipping industry by employing a risk management matrix to identify the severity and frequency of CSI risk factors, and discovers some appropriate risk management alternatives. This paper's findings are as follows: (1) The majority of risk factors have a moderate-risk level, and possible alternative risk management measures include risk prevention, self-retention and insurance. (2) Ensuring a balance between the efficiency of maritime logistics and supply chain security is of vital importance to any trading countries dealing with security risk issues. (3) The government should encourage the private sector to design and market security hardware and software, which will promote the growth of the domestic security industry and generate employment opportunities.     

集装箱船公司成本管理模式的转型

在分析传统成本管理模式弊端的基础上,结合船公司对成本管理工作的要求,提出成本管理模式从传统向现代转型的方向、目标及基本思路,并从事前规划与预算、事中监控与管理以及事后考核与改进等方面,探讨如何建立健全全方位、多角度的现代成本管理模式。     

苏州市内河集装箱运输业发展中存在的问题和建议

为促进苏州市内河集装箱运输业发展,推动苏州市运输结构优化调整,分析其内河集装箱运输业的现状及发展内河集装箱运输业的必要性,指出其存在的内河干线航道达标率和覆盖率低、京杭运河与长江黄金水道缺乏水运联系、南部与北部航道网相对独立、相关体系不健全等问题,并为此提出进一步优化航道网络、合理布局内河集装箱港口、开辟示范航线、研发适用船型、建立航运综合服务体系等建议。     

世界集装箱航运业兼并大潮的影响及其前景

在过去的一年中,集装箱班轮运输业涌现了令航运界震惊的兼并大潮和新建大型船舶集中出厂大潮,使得世界前20大船公司的运力大规模增长,市场集中度进一步提高,由此也导致航运市场竞争更加激烈。在这种兼并大潮和大船出厂大潮夹击的背景下,各主要承运人将适时调整经营策略,适应形势发展。欧亚承运人瓜分世界航运市场的前景日趋明朗,行业在酝酿下一轮的兼并。     

Examining the influence of firm performance on business risk-taking and the mediation effect of scale of operations in the container terminal industry

Container shipping and its related service sectors help accelerate globalization of the world economy. This industry has been experiencing rapid growth, prompting container terminal operators to increase their handling capacity in response. Providing container terminal services requires substantial capital investment in physical assets such as cargo handling facilities and information systems. On the other hand, operating container terminals is a long-term investment that typically spans several business cycles. Hence prudent asset management using appropriate tools is critical for container terminal operators to sustain their businesses. Generally, due to risk-adverseness, investors are unwilling to take more risk in their investment unless they can reap a higher return. Contrary to this argument, this study finds no direct influence of better firm performance as a proxy of higher return on business risk-taking by container terminal operators. Instead, scale of operations is positively associated with business risk-taking, suggesting that container terminal operators with a larger scale of operations are willing to take more business risk.     

Scale and rationalization in container shipping

Return to scale are important in container shipping: service operators are continuing to increase the size of their vessels. Mr Seok-Min Lim's article 'Economies of container ship size' (Maritime pollicy and Management,21(2) pages 149-160, 1994) uses a sample of transPacific voyages to evaluate the effect of vessel scale on revenue and cost.Although the results are inconclusive,his study is of value in drawing attention to the revenue-side problems of large containerships. More data need to be collected before the effects of topping up with low-rated cargo on unit revenue retention can be assessed. Meanwhile the pursuit of scale aggravates over-tonnaging. The required response is further rationalization, through the medium of the conferences and the container consortia. In Europe both are under political attack. Operators need to convince the authorities of the soundness of the soundness of their case for adapting these institutions to the neeeds of times.Otherwise the scramble for scale could spell disaster.     

基于SOP的航运企业管理模式

为防止航运企业业务管理中产生不规范操作现象,提升企业管理水平,防范经营风险,从航运企业经营特点出发分析传统航运企业存在的主要问题,提出将标准操作流程(简称SOP)应用于航运企业管理中,认为SOP对规范航运企业业务和操作流程,减少不合理流程运作,降低运作成本,改善企业管理水平等具有重要意义。     

Enhancing the competitiveness of Korea’s container shipping industry through structural improvements

ABSTRACT

After the collapse of Hanjin Shipping in 2016, Korea faced the task of reconstructing its container shipping industry by enhancing the competitiveness of its shipping companies in a rapidly evolving market environment. Responding to this need for policy design, this study first attempts to understand the industry based on the shipping ecosystem, which comprises the following four areas: shipping finance, collection of cargo, acquisition of ships, and partnership among carriers. Second, it lists the structural problems, along with the remedial policy alternatives, that were identified after conducting in-depth interviews with industry experts, which included mid-level managers. Third, it conducts an importance-performance analysis to classify problems according to their importance and performance, followed by an analytic hierarchy process analysis to define the priorities of policy alternatives. Finally, drawing on the empirical results, the paper concludes with suggestions on an integrated policy package for the container shipping industry.     

分析型客户管理体系在集装箱航运企业中的应用

为提高集装箱航运企业客户管理水平,介绍分析型客户管理体系在集装箱航运企业中的应用,分析其建立的必要性、模式及实施步骤,并举例说明马尔可夫过程模型在市场占有率和客户分析管理中的应用。     

闲置集装箱船减少不等于港航业复苏

美国次贷危机演变成全球金融危机后,直接影响实体经济的发展,港航业也受到重挫。从长远来看,随着各国经济刺激政策逐渐发挥作用,经济贸易恢复增长、港航业走出低谷是必然趋势,但这是个复杂曲折的过程。