Capacity management strategies in- and outside container shipping alliances

The first research project of my PhD provides a thorough examination of the global container shipping industry, focusing on alliance deployment strategies and market concentration patterns between 2011 and 2023. Using longitudinal data, the study is driven by spatiotemporal variances in alliance deployment and market concentration across all major global trade routes. A key element of the research is clustering trade routes, which allows for the analysis of alignments in market concentration, the dispersion of market participants' shares, and alliance deployment ratios. This approach provides critical insights into how alliances influence market dynamics over time and across different geographies. The findings are particularly relevant to academics, as current discussions often lack granularity when analyzing the complexities of strategic alliances in the container shipping industry. This research fills that gap by providing a detailed, data-driven exploration of market concentration and a thorough, contextual discussion of current research on strategic container shipping alliances.

Richard Borggreve started his PhD program at the Kühne Logistics University in September 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gordon Wilmsmeier and Prof. Dr. Kai Hoberg. Richard is genuinely interested in topics related to organization and how human decision-making can be optimized in the age of artificial intelligence. Consequently, the aim of this PhD project is to focus strategic decision processes in the container shipping industry. Richards academic background was formed at Lund University where he graduated with a B.Sc.BA. and later concluded his studies with a M.Sc.BA. specializing in the fields of organization and informatics. Before starting the master thesis, he studied urban transport economics and consumer psychology in Spain at the Universidad de Sevilla. Richard has worked in various countries and has broad professional experience in both forwarding and container shipping. He has been involved in and leading several restructuring projects at Hapag-Lloyd. In April 2021 he successfully graduated from Hapag-Lloyd's ALPHA program.