Daily Maersk’s impacts on shipper’s supply chain inventories and implications for the liner shipping industry

• Main Authors: Zhang, Abraham, Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Construction management
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99084; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18865
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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 t...