Contents

Regulation, Privatization, and Aeronautical Charges: Panel Data Evidence from European Airports

Volodymyr Bilotkach, Joseph A.Clougherty, Juergen Mueller, Anming Zhang 1

A Robust Approach for the Airport Gate Assignment

Liang Xu, Fan Wang, Zhou Xu 15

Spoke-Entry and Airline Network Reformation

Ming Hsin Lin, Akio Kawasaki 25

Logistics Aspects of Avian Influenza Pandemic in Hong Kong

Owen Tang, Yui Yip Lau 43

Logistics Institutions and Logistics Firms’ Competitive Advantage in Taiwan

Peter B. Marlow, Chin-Shan Lu, Po-Lin Lai 52

A Study on the Operation of Busan New Port Distripark

Ki-Chan Nam, Hye-Won Kim, Myoun-Soo Lee, Dong-Seok Lim 62

Corporate Social Responsibility in China: An Empirical Investigation of ChengDu Hi-tech Industrial

Development Zone

Chih-Chieh Chen, Yan-Ling Li, Kuo-Chung Shang, Chih-Ching Chang, Bing-Yan Lu, Yu-Chun Chang 70

Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract under Bills of Lading – with Special Reference to the

Development of the International Legislation and to a Special Issue under the Chinese Law

Chen Liang 80

Event Triggered Institutional Innovation – Evidence from Logistics Organization in Chinese Companie

Alexander Bode, Sasa Saric, Simon Alig 84

The Operation Model of Mobile Payment: A Case of China

Miao Miao, Wen Ren 96

Carrier’s Liability in Multimodal Carriage Contracts in China and its Comparison with US and EU

Ling Zhu, M. Deniz Guner-Ozbek, Hong Yan 103

Accounting Issues on Emissions Trading

Owen Tang, Brenton Fiedler 120

Comparison of Two Outsourcing Structures under Push, Pull and Two-Wholesale-Price Contracts

Pengfei Guo, Baozhuang Niu, Yulan Wang 129

ICT Implementation in Facilitating International Transport

Yung-Hao Hsu, Chandra S. Lalwani 139

Succeed in Wine Storage Management Systems Certification Scheme

Chen Xiaohua, Dai Qiong, Zhai Ke, Shi Yuan 148

The Effects of Cost Change on Alliance Services for a Container Carrier

I-Chang Chow, Chia-Hui Chang, Miao-Yun Chen 154

An Empirical Analysis for Container Ship Investment

Meifeng Luo, Lixian Fan 165

Ship Financing Practices in Hong Kong: What Changes Has the Financial Tsunami Wrought?

Yvonne Yiyi Zeng, Stephen Gong, Heng-Qing Ye 179

An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach in Formulating Growth Strategy of a Port System:

A Case Study of Aceh Ports in Indonesia

Muhammad Subhan, Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani 196

Port Reform in Taiwan: New Government Opportunities or Port Competitiveness?

Rong-Her Chiu 208

A Study on Operational Performance Evaluation of the World’s Leading Container Ports

Nam-Kyu Park, Bo Lu 216

The Impacts of Ownership Structure and Competition on Port Capacity Investments and Pricing:

An Economic Analysis

Yibin Xiao, Adolf K.Y. Ng, Xiaowen Fu 226

Service Quality Gap between the Expectations of Shippers and Carriers in Asian Dry Bulk Shipping

Nitin Mathur, Hong-Oanh Nguyen, Stephen Cahoon 242

Scale Diseconomies and Efficiencies of Liner Shipping

Tsz Leung Yip, Y.H. Venus Lun, Yui Yip Lau 265

China’s Oil Import Forecast and its Impact on Tanker Fleet Composition

Jiaolong Lai, Xiaoning Shi, Hao Hu 273

Factors Influencing the Quay Efficiency of Container Terminals - The Case of Major Ports in NE Asia

Chen Tao 283

Port Attributes Related to Container Terminal Efficiency in China and its Neighboring Countries:

The DEA Approach

Yuen Chi-lok Andrew, Zhang Anming, Cheung Waimana 293

The Impact of the Container Security Initiative on the Port Logisitics industry in Taiwan based on

Risk Assessment

Yi-Chih Yang 306

Environmental Accounting – Disclosures of Environmental Liability and the Shipping Sector

Owen Tang, Brenton Fiedler 323

Inspection Policy of a Port State Control Authority

Xianghua Gan, Kevin X. Li, Haisha Zheng 330

The Effect of Shipowners’ Effort in Vessels Accident: A Bayesian Network Approach

Kevin X LI, Jingbo YIN, Z. Yang, J. Wang 337

A Decision Support System for IAV-based Container Port Operations

Jingxin Dong, Jin Wang, Steven Bonsall, Zaili Yang, Rochdi Merzouki 355

A Disruption Management Model for Berth Scheduling Problem in Container Terminals

Qingcheng Zeng, Zhongzhen Yang 365

Container Port Planning and Advanced Modeling Techniques

Branislav Dragović, Nataša Kovač, Maja Škurić 375

Quayside Container Cranes: Development and Automation

Nenad Zrnić, Branislav Dragović, Maja Škurić, Marko Mikijeljević 388

A Framework for Estimating Economies of Agglomeration and Supply Chain Network Effects in

Maritime Clusters

A. M. Pagano, R. Ungo, O. Sanchez, A.G. Aguilar 399

A Model on Port Basin Choice with Russian Container Trade

Simme Veldman, Olga Gopkalo 409

Port Spatial Development and Theory of Constraints

Wing Yee Tracy Chan, Tsz Leung Yip 421

Group Pricing Models for Liner Shipping Revenue Management

Shih-Chan Ting, Jiunn-Liang Guo, Chung-Jen Yen 431

Temporal Links between the Freight and Ship Markets in both Dry Bulk and Tanker Sectors

Ying Kou, Liming Liu, Yinchun Wu 439

Determinants of Container Ship Investment Decision and Ship Choice

Meifeng Luo , Lixian Fan 449

Lease Accounting and US Transportation Industry

Owen Tang, Brenton Fiedler 462