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Received: 27 August 2017

Accepted: 9 January 2018

First Online: 22 January 2018

Authors’ information

: Ziaul Haque Munim is a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Agder, Norway. His main research interests include maritime economics and logistics, supply chain management and international trade. He holds a MSc degree in Supply Chain Management with specializations in transport and logistics, and transport geography modelling from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He received the Best Paper Award at the IAME Annual Conference 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.Hans-Joachim Schramm is a Senior Lecturer at WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business and an external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He holds a diploma degree in economics from Humboldt-University at Berlin and a doctoral degree from Dresden University of Technology. Being a forwarding agent by profession, his main focus of his research is about economics and policy issues in sea, air, rail and road transport markets. He authored several papers and monographs and contributed to peer-review processes at JBL, IJPDLM, IJLM, MPM, LR and JTG. Furthermore, he was visiting lecturer in Belgium, Finland, France, Hungary, Sweden, China and Cuba.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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