ABSTRACT
Maritime containerized shipping have been recently challenged by stochastic shocks, such as the Covid -19 pandemic clearly indicating shortfalls and weaknesses of global maritime containerization flows. The aim of the paper is to present a holistic analysis of factors that globally affect the potential for further development of containerized shipping. The entire research design comes as an attempt made at identifying the main determinants, building and testing a new tool for development comparison. The results are presented as a combined matrix of the eight main determinants, key factors and indices and a radar chart for a better comparison and synthesis. Moreover, there is a potential for further utilization of the presented matrix and adopted methodology as a universal tool that will support management in the field of the expected architecture of global containerized shipping after absorption of any global shocks, that can be expected in the years to come.
