Abstract
In 2016, container shipping will celebrate its 60th anniversary as an innovation that had a tremendous impact on the geography of production and distribution. Production became globalized by a better usage of comparative advantages while distribution systems where able to interact more efficiently This paper analyses the mounting pressures on box logistics in light of global supply chains.
It will be demonstrated that the basic principle of containerization remained the same notwithstanding scale increases in vessels and terminals and a clear productivity increase in container handling. Although the container was an innovation initially applied for maritime transportation, the emergence of global supply chains has placed intense pressures to implement containerization over inland freight distribution systems. Box — containerized — logistics is increasingly challenged to deal with the ever increasing time, reliability and costs requirements of global supply chains. Imbalances in trade flows and accessibility and capacity constraints are among some of the developments that are making it increasingly difficult to reap the full benefits of containerization.
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Rodrigue, JP., Notteboom, T.E. (2013). Containerization, Box Logistics and Global Supply Chains: The Integration of Ports and Liner Shipping Networks. In: Haralambides, H.E. (eds) Port Management. Palgrave Readers in Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137475770_2
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