The role of strategic alliances in logistics performance of container shipping and transport firms

Abstract

This research work investigates how collaborative and cooperative strategic partnerships in container shipping correlate with transportation enterprises' logistical performance. Strategic collaborative and cooperative alliances have been argued empirically and theoretically that they reduce the scenario in which the industry's stronger members negotiate all advantages plus some weaker members' partnership earnings, encouraging veracity, commitment, flexibility, trust, honesty, integrity, confidence, and weakening the partnership's ultimate breakup. Yet, there appears to be no empirical research on collaborative and cooperative strategic alliances in the logistics performance of container shipping and transport firms, particularly in terms of strategic collaborative and cooperative alliances that improve firms' effectiveness and efficiency. Based on this limitation, the researchers sought to bridge the knowledge gap in this study. In the course of the study, 505 questionnaire copies were given to registered management employees of 101 container shipping and transport enterprises in Nigeria. Four hundred thirty-four was completed and found useful for inclusion.