Daily Maersk's impacts on shipper's supply chain inventories and implications for the liner shipping industry
Abraham Zhang and
Jasmine Siu Lee Lam
Maritime Policy & Management, 2015, vol. 42, issue 3, 246-262
Abstract:
The liner shipping industry has long been characterized by a weekly sailing frequency and schedule unreliability. This research is motivated by the launch of the revolutionary "Daily Maersk" service in late 2011, which introduced daily departures and "absolute reliability" in the Asia-North Europe trade lane. This article analyzes Daily Maersk's impacts on a shipper's supply chain inventories and profound implications for the liner shipping industry as a game changer. The quantitative analyses show that the impact of more frequent sailings is most significant on a shipper's cycle stock, while improving schedule reliability substantially reduces safety stock and pipeline stock. Daily Maersk is most valuable for products that have high value density, high inventory holding cost ratio, low demand variability, and high service level (SL) requirement. These findings imply that the trend of liner alliance/merger/acquisition is likely to continue or even accelerate as shipping lines consolidate fleet capacity to offer more frequent sailings. Rival carriers may step up their involvement in terminal operations to improve schedule reliability. They also need to rethink about their SL targets and clearly define their preferred customer segments.
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2013.869364
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