We examine the impact of port congestion on containership freight rates. Our results show that port congestion has a positive and significant effect on containership freight rates. However, a 1% increase in port congestion in North America or Europe has an effect of approximately 0.5% on...

Participants in the maritime industry place much interest in the Forward Freight Agreements (FFA/FFAs), being an indispensable tool for hedging shipping freight risk. Our paper innovates by directly comparing the FFA predictions with their actual future settlement prices as well as by examining...

Economic return and volatility spillovers of derivatives markets on a number of assets have been extensively examined in the general economics literature. However, there are only a limited number of studies that investigate such interactions between freight rates and the freight futures, and no...

This is an assessment of the influences on the transport mode choice of shippers in the EU, highlighting why they often prefer road to rail. Drawing on the analysis of long-term trends of freight transport, a number of national case studies (Germany, Poland, France, Italy and Spain) and...

This is an assessment of the influences on the transport mode choice of shippers in the EU, highlighting why they often prefer road to rail. Drawing on the analysis of long-term trends of freight transport, a number of national case studies (Germany, Poland, France, Italy and Spain) and...