Shipping Line Dominance and Freight Rate Practices on Trade Routes: The Case of the Far East–South Africa Trade

This paper examines the issue of shipping line dominance, taking the Far East–South Africa trade as an example. This study has two objectives: first, to collect sea freight rates for trades in relation to South Africa (SA) so as to understand general trends in price setting by shipping lines and ship capacities on the SA routes; and second, to examine whether evidence can be found on the potential dominance of shipping lines on the SA trading routes from the Far East (FE). To achieve these two goals, this study collected freight rates from major shipping lines serving the routes of major Asian ports to SA ports and comparing the operating costs between different shipping lines by way of analyzing the capacity and types of container ships deployed on FE–SA trade routes.

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• Authors:
  • Chen, Tao
  • Lee, Paul Tae–Woo
  • Notteboom, Theo
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 155-173
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
  • ISSN: 1756-6517
  • EISSN: 1756-6525
  • Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijstl

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Containerships; Freight traffic; Operating costs; Pricing; Ship lines; Trade routes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight rates
• Geographic Terms: East Asia; South Africa
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01484390
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 29 2013 11:08AM