Investigating the effect of Arctic sea routes on the global maritime container transport system via a generalized Nash equilibrium model

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Wang Yangjun, Zhang Ren, Ge Shanshan, Qian Longxia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2018
• Subjects: Container shipping; Stackelberg game model; global warming; Northern Sea Route; Northeast Passage; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Nash; Global warming; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/17518369.2018.1547042; https://doaj.org/article/c797576ad61844249cf36753d10407f4

This paper proposes a generalized Nash equilibrium model to investigate if Arctic routes can be used as a “relief valve” for current intercontinental sea routes. This model is presented as a Stackelberg form, where the shipping companies correspond to the leaders and the customers correspond to the...