E-commerce and the Container Shipping Industry

Hans Ham and Bart Kuipers
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Hans Ham: Delft University of Technology
Bart Kuipers: TNO Inro

Chapter 4 in Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World, 2004, pp 47-68 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The globalization of economies is generating new maritime transport flows. In particular, the container shipping industry has benefited from this development. However, shipping a container from shipper/consignor to consignee sometimes involves over 60 documents. Hence, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has always been important in this sector. Shipping companies have embraced Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and Electronic Data Processing (EDP-)systems have been widely implemented. However, e-commerce, i.e. the marketing, selling and buying of products and services via the Internet, has been far less applied.

Keywords: Container Shipping; Shipping Industry; Shipping Company; Liner Shipping; Electronic Data Interchange (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24827-9_4

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