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    International container shipping through the Covid-19 pandemic - Disruptions from a Swedish perspective
    (2024) Altuntas Vural, Ceren; Gonzalez-Aregall, Marta; Woxenius, Johan; Rogerson, Sara; Svanberg, Martin; Bergqvist, Rickard
    At the onset of the pandemic in spring 2020, the Swedish shipping sector was first affected by border closures preventing passengers to use RoPax shipping and cruise ferries. There were some blank sailings but in general they kept operating to foster intra-European trade by trucks despite the missing revenues from passengers. Shipping in general was affected by port disrup-tions and complicated crew changes. Eventually, however, it was clear that the most dramatic disruptions on a global scale where experienced in the container segment. General media re-ported on delayed goods, high freight rates and, however not related to the pandemic, the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal for a week in March 2021. Currently, there are few reports of supply chains and shipping suffering from disruptions and capacity constraints related to the pandemic. The peak in freight rates was rather replaced by depressed rates and there is a certain risk that some logisticians and supply chain managers regard the pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime event and just want to get back to a previous be-haviour seeing container shipping as a commodity with indefinite capacity at a reasonable price. Nevertheless, the war in Ukraine, the drought in the Panama Canal and the attacks by the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea create other problems for container shipping. Freight rates increase significantly, but from very low levels. The purpose of the report is to describe and analyse how international container shipping was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and other disruptions. The analysis takes a Swedish perspective on disruptions and tries to go beyond the anecdotal reporting and capture what happened and why. Container shipping is put into a context of economy, consumption, world trade, supply chains and logistics. The pandemic and more current events affecting container shipping market are described together with how shipping lines responded. A series of interviews with Swedish ac-tors revealed how they perceived the disruptions and what countermeasures the actors have applied to mitigate the effects, their organisational learning and how they prepare for future disruptions
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    Regional logistiksamverkan för konkurrenskraft
    (2003) Pruth, Magnus; Bergqvist, Rickard; Department of Business Administration
    Forskningens syfte är att närmare studera motiv till, utformning och funktion av regional logistiksamverkan och möjligheten att utveckla regionala logistikcentra. Av speciellt intresse är att identifiera nyttan av regional samverkan och samarbetsprocessen för utvecklingen av regionala logistikcentra. Denna studie är en del av ett större projekt om regionala logistiksystem. Forskningsfältet kartläggs genom att belysa tidigare forskning och projekt om regionala logistikcentra och närliggande områden. Analysen skall förstärka och skapa större förståelse av dynamiken bakom logistisk samverkan och fenomenet regionala logistikcentra. Rapporten avser att förklara utvecklingen av regional logistiksamverkan för att förbättra den logistiska konkurrenskraften i regioner.
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    The Potential of West European Sea-based Intermodal Systems
    (2003) Esping, Pär; Bergqvist, Rickard; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate Business School
    The purpose of this study is to analyse the present goods flows between Scandinavia and regions in Western Europe and to estimate the potential share of these flows that could be conquered by an intermodal transportation system where sea transportation is the fundamental mode of transport. The system is constructed from a scenario perspective, however with regard to present opportunities and limitations. Furthermore, this research is intended to function as a pre-study to a possible future EU project. The result of this research is constituted by the potential amount of goods that can be conquered by the intermodal transportation system. The potential is presented in terms of tonnes, number of containers and vehicles. We believe that the possibility of conquering this potential amount of goods is promising. The advantages of intermodal transportation, such as cost efficiency, environmental friendliness and the level of quality services are of such character and strategic importance that customers will be attracted of the intermodal transportation service. Our final recommendation is to construct a pilot project of this sea-based intermodal transportation system and to realise it as soon as possible, for the sake of the economy in Europe, its population and the environment. For further research, we believe that extending the research study to include the transport alternative of inland waterway transportation should be explored. An in-depth market research study should also be conducted before realising an intermodal transportation system of this nature.