%0 Journal Article
%T Global merchandise trade and logistics system development and their impact on maritime
	container transport market
%A Grzelakowski, Andrzej S.
%J International Business and Global Economy
%V 2013
%R 10.4467/23539496IB.13.008.2644
%N Volume 32
%P 114-133
%K container transport, maritime container markets, freight rates and indices
%@ 2300-6102
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/ibage/article/rozwoj-globalnego-handlu-i-systemu-logistycznego-i-ich-wp3yw-na-rynek-morskich-przewozow-kontenerowych
%X 
	The world trade, and the global logistics system it has created, strongly impact the international
	maritime transport sector as well as other segments of the global economy. The existing relations
	among them are reflected in the most comprehensive form on global commodity markets
	(primary ones) and transport markets (secondary ones). Author has analyzed both types of
	markets and their dynamic, trying to identify and evaluate the main tendencies and occurrences
	existing in each of those sensitive segments of the global economy. Furthermore, he has made an
	attempt to determine the influence of world commodity markets and global logistics system in
	terms of their scope and strength over global maritime container transport market. The research
	results unequivocally indicate that this segment of global freight market shows relatively high
	degree of adaptability to the dynamic changes of its trade pattern and logistics environment.
	Moreover, the world maritime container transport market does not generate high logistics costs
	and thereby it is not a barrier to the world merchandise trade and the global logistics system
	development.