New elements of competition in the container liner shipping industry.

Container shipping is experiencing some major issues (mergers and acquisitions, formation of new alliances,...) The pessimism in the containership sector has been re-enforced by the Hanjin bankruptcy. What is the impact of these recent developments on the degree of competition, intensity of competition, ... The project proposal consist of data collection to calculate some indicators of competition for the container liner shipping industry. The challenge is to collect monthly data and data for the container division of the carrier. A job student can support this research. the project starts from my doctoral research and results in an extended database, a developed Excel tool and a joint paper.

Keywords:COMPETITION, COMPETITION INTENSITY, CONTAINER LINER SHIPPING, MARITIME ECONOMICS

Disciplines:Applied economics