Maritime Economics 3e

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adapt theories on openness and trade-offs, characterise a selection of flexible and specialised European short sea shipping concepts and analyse how substantial changes in the future character of the competition with road and rail can affect the development of ro-ro shipping in the South Baltic Sea.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the influence of technological improvement on the strategy choice of shipping enterprises through sensitivity analysis and found that the government's carbon quota policy is influenced by shipping market demand.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extensively reviewed the literature of firm-level investment theories and ship investments and showed that the application of these theories to ship investments is confined to the basic investment valuation models, such as Net Present Value and Real Option Analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of relationship marketing tactics on container terminals' financial and non-financial performance indicators were analyzed through multilevel structural equation modeling, and the authors concluded that the more a port implements relational marketing tactics, the higher the quality of the relationship with the customer, which then returns to it as the performance of the customer relationship and consequently the financial performance.