Volume 58.1: Guest Editors' Introduction

IF 1.1 4区 工程技术 Q4 MANAGEMENT
Douglas N. Hales, J. Lam
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Global Shipping and Port Competitiveness: The Traditionalist and Supply Chain Perspectives Global shipping is a volatile industry, but it is rapidly recovering from the 2016 market which saw the consolidation and bankruptcy of several shipping lines, including the Korean giant Hanjin Shipping. This forced global shippers and carriers to rethink how they are going to remain competitive in a market that still has significant overcapacity in 2018, and for the foreseeable future. Luckily, 2017 was a good year financially for the large carriers with improving operating margins. Extending the first special themed issue in summer 2018, this second special issue on global shipping and ports focuses on how shippers and carriers are becoming more flexible in their strategies and operations to create new competitive advantages. It addresses issues with the methods used to study ports, strategic impacts on large and small vessels, hinterland constraints to ports, as well as the emergence of supply chain theory to guide port priorities. The lead article by Chang and Talley examines port competitiveness from the perspective of traditional port efficiency and the more contemporary supply chain viewpoint. It points out that there are some critical methodological issues in current port literature that may explain contradictory findings. They recommend directions for future research to resolve many of these issues. The second article by Yalcin, Chakravorty, and Yun focuses on the contemporary perspective to discuss how supply chain agility and ambidexterity concepts can be used to improve port competitiveness through the theoretical lens of the Balanced Theory of Port Competitiveness. They find that both explorative and exploitive practices are beneficial to port competitiveness. The third article by Lu and Yeh examines the impact of larger container vessels on port agility, which leads to greater efficiency and profits, but may harm customer service and safety. They note how Europe and Asia differ in how they tend to prioritize competitive factors from the proliferation of mega container vessels. The fourth paper by Fliehr, Zimmer, and Smith focuses on hinterland access to ports that affects port operations and prices. In the context of Brazil, the authors examine how inefficiencies in farm-to-port logistics affect farm gate pricing.
第58.1卷:客座编辑简介
全球航运和港口竞争力:传统主义者和供应链视角全球航运是一个动荡的行业,但它正在从2016年的市场中迅速复苏,当时包括韩国巨头韩进海运在内的几家航运公司合并破产。这迫使全球托运人和承运人重新思考,在2018年和可预见的未来,他们将如何在产能严重过剩的市场中保持竞争力。幸运的是,对于运营利润率不断提高的大型航空公司来说,2017年是财务状况良好的一年。继2018年夏季的第一期主题特刊之后,第二期全球航运和港口特刊聚焦于托运人和承运人如何在战略和运营方面变得更加灵活,以创造新的竞争优势。它解决了研究港口的方法、对大型和小型船只的战略影响、内陆对港口的限制,以及指导港口优先事项的供应链理论的出现等问题。Chang和Talley的主要文章从传统的港口效率和更现代的供应链角度考察了港口竞争力。它指出,当前港口文献中存在一些关键的方法论问题,这些问题可能解释了相互矛盾的发现。他们建议未来的研究方向,以解决其中的许多问题。Yalcin、Chakravorty和Yun的第二篇文章聚焦于当代视角,通过港口竞争力平衡理论的理论视角,讨论如何利用供应链敏捷性和双元性概念来提高港口竞争力。他们发现,探索性和开发性实践都有利于提高港口竞争力。陆和叶的第三篇文章探讨了大型集装箱船对港口灵活性的影响,这会提高效率和利润,但可能会损害客户服务和安全。他们指出,欧洲和亚洲在优先考虑大型集装箱船扩散的竞争因素方面存在差异。Fliehr、Zimmer和Smith的第四篇论文重点关注影响港口运营和价格的内陆港口准入。在巴西的背景下,作者研究了从农场到港口的物流效率低下如何影响农场大门定价。
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CiteScore
2.40
自引率
4.30%
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期刊介绍: Transportation Journal is devoted to the publication of articles that present new knowledge relating to all sectors of the supply chain/logistics/transportation field. These sectors include supply chain/logistics management strategies and techniques; carrier (transport firm) and contract logistics firm (3PL and 4PL) management strategies and techniques; transport economics; regulation, promotion, and other dimensions of public policy toward transport and logistics; and education.
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