Competitiveness of the China-Europe Railway Express and liner shipping under the enforced sulfur emission control convention

Feng Lian, Yunzhu He and Zhongzhen Yang

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020, vol. 135, issue C

Abstract: The sensitivity of the pass-through ratio of the added costs due to the enforced sulfur emission cap of liner shipping as extra fare for shippers and rail operation frequency on the competitiveness of China-Europe railway express (CER-express) and liner shipping for cargo transportation between China and Europe is analyzed. The objective is to lay a theoretical basis for liner companies to optimize the pass-through ratio for maximizing shipping profit, for CER-express to determine an expected operation frequency and for IMO to understand the effects of the enforced sulfur emission cap when CER-express is available.

Keywords: Sulfur emission cap; China-Europe Railway Express; Mode choice; Total transport time; Pass-through ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.101861

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