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E-commerce and the Container Shipping Industry

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Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World

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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.

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  1. Department of Transport Policy and Logistics’ Organization, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Hans van Ham

  2. Section Logistics and Transport, TNO Inro, Delft, The Netherlands

    Bart Kuipers

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  1. Groupe Transport et Mobilité (GTM), Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (FUCAM), 151, Ch. de Binche, 7000, Mons, Belgium

    Michel Beuthe

  2. JP-Transplan Ltd, Jaakonkatu 3, 01621, Vantaa, Finland

    Veli Himanen

  3. Department of Economics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna, Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126, Bologna(BO), Italy

    Aura Reggiani

  4. Department of Law, University of Lecce, Via Monteroni, snc, 73100, Lecce(LE), Italy

    Luca Zamparini

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van Ham, H., Kuipers, B. (2004). E-commerce and the Container Shipping Industry. In: Beuthe, M., Himanen, V., Reggiani, A., Zamparini, L. (eds) Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24827-9_4

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