The commercialization of East European liner shipping: the experience of Poland

摘要

This paper will examine the impact of continuous and increasingchange in the shipping sector of Eastern Europe with particularreference to the liner sector in Poland-one of the more dynamicmarkets that has emerged since the political, economic and socialchanges of the late 1980s. Polish Ocean Lines, and in par- ticularPOL Levant, a relatively new, commercialized subsidiary operating inthe private sector, are taken as case studies to assess the newstructures that are emerging in the marketplace.