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How do ocean carriers organize the empty containers reposition activity in the USA?

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The routing of empty containers is an unavoidable activity of the intermodal chain. In fact, import containers that arrive at a national port are sent toward a multiplicity of interior destinations. Then the empty containers must return to a port to accomplish an export voyage. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the organizational choice of ocean carriers to reposition their empty containers in the USA. Ocean carriers have four options to relocate their empty containers: the spot organization and the adoption of three different renewable contracts to frame the externalization. How do ocean carriers choose their organization form to relocate their empty containers?

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  • Erika Lopez, 2003. "How do ocean carriers organize the empty containers reposition activity in the USA?," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(4), pages 339-355, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:marpmg:v:30:y:2003:i:4:p:339-355
    DOI: 10.1080/0308883032000145636
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    1. Roy Van den Berg & Peter W. De Langen, 2015. "Towards an 'inland terminal centred' value proposition," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(5), pages 499-515, July.
    2. Bell, Michael G.H. & Liu, Xin & Rioult, Jeremy & Angeloudis, Panagiotis, 2013. "A cost-based maritime container assignment model," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 58-70.
    3. Y. H. Venus Lun & Kee‐Hung Lai & T. C. Edwin Cheng, 2008. "A Descriptive Framework for the Development and Operation of Liner Shipping Networks," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(4), pages 439-457, August.
    4. Jahn, Carlos & Schlingmeier, Johannes, 2014. "Cooperation in Empty Container Logistics," Chapters from the Proceedings of the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL), in: Blecker, Thorsten & Kersten, Wolfgang & Ringle, Christian M. (ed.), Innovative Methods in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Current Issues and Emerging Practices. Proceedings of the Hamburg International Conferenc, volume 19, pages 499-514, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Institute of Business Logistics and General Management.
    5. Jean-Paul Rodrigue & Theo Notteboom, 2015. "Looking inside the box: evidence from the containerization of commodities and the cold chain," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 207-227, April.
    6. Kolar, Petr & Schramm, Hans-Joachim & Prockl, Günter, 2018. "Intermodal transport and repositioning of empty containers in Central and Eastern Europe hinterland," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 73-82.

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