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The global trends and outlooks of liner shipping

This paper aims at analyzing world liner shipping trends and outlooks at the beginning of the new century. The liner shipping sector expands today as a consequence of enormous fast development of containerized industry worldwide. Thus, the majority of transported cargo in liner shipping includes containerized cargo and the liner shipping fleet is mostly represented by fully containerized ships. Furthermore, liner shipping companies continuously increase their container fleet, mainly with large container ships. It is also evident that companies have strong tendency of mutual association to provide stronger operations at the market. Finally, ports are faced with a need of developing due to expansion of the container shipping industry and especially due to introduction of very large container ships in the liner fleet.

liner shipping; container ships; companies concentration activities; ports development.

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