Swedish shippers’ strategies for coping with slow-steaming in deep sea container shipping

Abstract When container shipping lines experience over-capacity and high fuel costs, they typically respond by decreasing sailing speeds and, consequently, increasing transport time. Most of the literature on this phenomenon, often referred to as slow-steaming, takes the perspective of the shipping...

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Main Authors: Christian Finnsgård, Joakim Kalantari, Zeeshan Raza, Violeta Roso, Johan Woxenius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-05-01
Series:Journal of Shipping and Trade
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41072-018-0033-2