Maritime Business Review: Volume 4 Issue 4 , Open Access

Maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS): implementation and legal issues

Stephen Li, K.S. Fung

The purpose of this paper is to see whether the concept of autonomous ship is having an effect on pioneering the sea transportation as well as improvement of ship safety and the…

Examining performance change and its drivers in Irish ports 2000-2016

Eamonn O'Connor, Stephen Hynes, Amaya Vega, Natasha Evers

The purpose of this paper is to examine performance change in the Irish state-owned port sector over the 2000-2016 period using a case study approach.

The regulations of shipping conferences in Taiwan referring to the EU to repeal the block exemption for liner conferences

Rong-Her Chiu

The first well-known liner shipping conference was created for the UK/Calcutta trade in 1875. However, the European Union (EU) decided to abolish repeal the liner conferences…

Influence of transportation infrastructure on the relationship between institutions and economic performance

Mei Chi Wong, Tsz Leung Yip

This study aims to analyse the observation that the economics of many countries have boomed after the input of substantial investments into physical and social infrastructures.

Selection of effective risk mitigation strategies in container shipping operations

Chia-Hsun Chang, Jingjing Xu, Jingxin Dong, Zaili Yang

Container shipping companies face various risks with different consequences that are required to be mitigated. Limited empirical research has been done on identifying and…