Structure, conduct and performance on the major liner shipping routes [1]
Market concentration on the major container shipping routes has the potential to reduce contestability, impede effective competition and, as a consequence, inhibit the positive relationship between trade and economic growth. This development could also hamper the ability of economic regions to realize their respective competitive and comparative advantages. Within this context, the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) framework is used to analyse liner shipping dynamics in the transpacific, Europe–Far East and transatlantic trade routes. The analysis finds no conclusive evidence that either the increased concentration of slot capacity or the attempts by shipping lines to boost potential slot capacity (mainly through collaborative arrangements) lead to improved financial performance. The paper concludes that, despite high and increasing concentration among carriers on each of the trade routes analysed, these markets remain contestable.
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Authors:
- Lam, Jasmine S
- Yap, Wei Yim
- Cullinane, Kevin
- Publication Date: 2007-8
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 359-381
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Serial:
- Maritime Policy & Management
- Volume: 34
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISSN: 0308-8839
- EISSN: 1464-5254
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tmpm20
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Competition; Economic growth; Economics; Liner shipping; Performance; Routes; Trade
- Uncontrolled Terms: Capacity; Conduct; Container shipping; Financial performance; Major; Slots; Structure
- Geographic Terms: Atlantic Ocean; East Asia; Europe; Pacific Ocean
- Subject Areas: Economics; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01077029
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 28 2007 8:01AM