Peter de Langen

Dr. Peter de Langen is the owner and principal consultant of Ports & Logistics Advisory, based in Malaga, Spain and established in 2013. Peter de Langen is part-time professor at Copenhagen Business School and held a part-time position as professor Cargo Transport & Logistics, at Eindhoven University of Technology, from 2009 to 2016, From 2007 to 2013, Peter worked at Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoR), department Corporate Strategy as senior advisor. From 1997 to 2007, he worked at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). Peter is co-director of the knowledge dissemination platform www.porteconomics.eu, co-organiser of conferences and training events and regular speaker at industry conferences on ports and shipping.

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The Analyst: the port value calculation Featured

The Analyst: the port value calculation

Like other sectors of the global industry, ports are keen to point out their national economic impact, writes Peter de Langen at his column "The Analyst" in Port Strategy. However, there is no internationally established approach to calculating this impact. A recent report for the US ports industry is striking: it claims that the...
Beyond the landlord: port authority strategies around the globe Containers

Beyond the landlord: port authority strategies around the globe

Are port authorities limiting their activities to the landlord functions? If not, which other strategies do they develop? And to what extend are they different in different parts of the world? Up to now, strategic management perspectives to port authorities (PAs) are limited and mostly consists of specific case studies or comparative...
The Analyst: port cooperation and mega-ships Category

The Analyst: port cooperation and mega-ships

In the, often heated, discussions on the effects of mega-ships on shoreside infrastructure, let's include the question of co-operation between nearby ports. PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen comments that the issue of co-operation is clearly relevant for the two large upstream ports in Europe that have called for such a...
The Analyst: under one roof Category

The Analyst: under one roof

APM Terminals has announced that it will invest more than $2bn in a new port in Nigeria, its largest single investment in a port ever. Peter de Langen through his column "The Analyst" in Port Strategy comments: "What sets this investment apart from others it has made is that APMT will develop both the container terminal and other...
The Analyst: vying for attention Category

The Analyst: vying for attention

There's certainly been a lot of chatter around New York about infrastructure and about the local port authority, but most of the press, traditional media and online coverage has not been about maritime things. The biggest headlines have been garnered by plans for a new $4bn revamp of the 1960s vintage LaGuardia Airport (which, sensibly,...
The Analyst: are mega-ships such an imposition? Featured

The Analyst: are mega-ships such an imposition?

The OECD report on the effects on mega-ships provides valuable insights for all players in the port industry. Peter de Langen through his column "The Analyst" in Port Strategy focuses on an important flaw in the report: the suggestion that mega ships impose infrastructure costs on the public sector. Imposing means 'forcing (an...
The Analyst: forward plan to manage transitions Featured

The Analyst: forward plan to manage transitions

In Antwerp, the closure of the GM plant makes a huge site available for re-development, while in Rotterdam, one of the refineries (currently owned by Q8) is up for sale, writes Peter de Langen, co-director of PortEconomics in his viewpoint- published in his Port Strategy column as 'The Analyst'. For the latter, one scenario is a buyer...
The Analyst: belief in canadian container prospects Containers

The Analyst: belief in canadian container prospects

Last month, DP World bought the Maher terminal in Prince Rupert, with a 2014 throughput of a little over 600,000 teu for more than a half billion US dollar - just under $1,000 per teu handled, comments Peter de Langen at his "The Analyst" column in Port Strategy. Two aspects of this deal are interesting. First, the price seems to...
Ports innovation ecosystem Featured

Ports innovation ecosystem

PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen led an initiative to develop a cooperation platform to promote industry oriented research in the port of Rotterdam. Five founding partners, Port of Rotterdam Authority, the business community, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Delft University of Technology and the city of Rotterdam have committed...
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