Bust and Boom in Container Shipping During the Pandemic

Michael Bell is the Founding Professor of Ports and Maritime Logistics in the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. Prior to this, he was for 10 years the Professor of Transport Operations at Imperial College London and, for the final 5 years at Imperial, Founding Director of the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre. He graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in Economics and holds an MSc in Transportation and a PhD in Freight Distribution from Leeds University. He started his academic career as a New Blood lecturer in the Transport Operations Research Group at Newcastle University, where he was subsequently promoted to Reader (Associate Professor) and Professor. His research and teaching interests span ports and maritime logistics, city logistics, transport network modelling, traffic engineering and intelligent transport systems. He is the author of many papers, a number of books (including, with Yasunori Iida, Transportation Network Analysis, published in 1997). For 17 years he was an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, the leading transport theory journal, and now serves as an Editorial Board Editor. He is also an Associate Editor of Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, an Editorial Panel member of Maritime Policy & Management, and serves other peer reviewed journals in a number of roles. As of August 2021, his Google h-index is currently 62, with 14315 citations