A container supply chain is an integrated network of companies which carry out different operations such as transport, loading, discharging and transhipment of the containers. Companies within the container supply chain system need diverse capabilities to perform container operations efficiently. One of these capabilities is managing the ever-changing, unexpected and unpredictable container supply chain environment. Agility is a capability that can enable organisations to manage these

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... tal changes. Based on dynamic capability theory, agility is the ability of sensing, seizing and transforming. Sensing is organisations' capability in identifying opportunities and threats in their environment. Seizing is the capability of organisations in implementing their works in a way to preserve responsiveness and transforming is the capability of organisations to reconfigure their resources to adapt to change and achieve agility. Agility can be developed by boosting these three areas of capabilities and utilising different enablers such as information technology. Information technology is an important agility enabler, which can facilitate agility in different aspects of the system, such as sensing market changes and responding accordingly. Employing agility has encouraged organisations to select and replace traditional information technologies with new agility-enabling information technology innovations. However, in extreme competition, restricted budget and an unstable economy, investment in information technology may not necessarily lead to an improvement in agility unless it is cost-efficient and flexible. Cloud computing is an IT opportunity that has provided access to a modern and powerful information system at a low cost. Cloud computing is a type of technology that provides on-demand hardware and software services to clients throughout a network in a self-service mode independent from their location and devices. To date, there is no empirical research which has studied cloud-enabled capabilities, supply chain [...]