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  • September 26th, 2025
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    Investments and financing challenges of the EU’s port managing bodies; findings from a comprehensive survey

    Investments and financing challenges of the EU’s port managing bodies; findings from a comprehensive survey

    Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents:  Kuwait Shuwaikh Port

    Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents: Kuwait Shuwaikh Port

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

    Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

    Toward green container liner shipping: joint optimization of heterogeneous fleet deployment, speed optimization, and fuel bunkering

    Toward green container liner shipping: joint optimization of heterogeneous fleet deployment, speed optimization, and fuel bunkering

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    Port reform: World Bank publishes the third edition of its port reform toolkit

    Port reform: World Bank publishes the third edition of its port reform toolkit

    When will we admit that maritime transport will not be decarbonised by 2050?

    When will we admit that maritime transport will not be decarbonised by 2050?

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    The World Ports Tracker in TOC Europe

    The World Ports Tracker in TOC Europe

    Newly-upgraded IAPH World Ports Tracker identifies major sustainability and market trends

    Newly-upgraded IAPH World Ports Tracker identifies major sustainability and market trends

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    PhD posts in the area of ports and energy transition

    PhD posts in the area of ports and energy transition

    PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

    PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

    Accessibility or connectivity: why is it correct to say that in the Caribbean the main logistics problem is connectivity?

    Accessibility or connectivity: why is it correct to say that in the Caribbean the main logistics problem is connectivity?

    Cruise Port-City Compass

    Cruise Port-City Compass

    Webinar: short sea shipping services in the southern Caribbean region

    Webinar: short sea shipping services in the southern Caribbean region

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    Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

    Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

    In a tight spot: American ports in global supply chains

    In a tight spot: American ports in global supply chains

    Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

    Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

    Antwerp-Bruges surpasses Rotterdam in Q1 2025: a structural shift or short-term fluctuation?

    Antwerp-Bruges surpasses Rotterdam in Q1 2025: a structural shift or short-term fluctuation?

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Adolf K.Y. Ng

Adolf K.Y. Ng is Professor of Transport and Supply Chain Management at the Asper School of Business of the University of Manitoba (Canada) and the Director of the University of Manitoba Transport Institute (UMTI) (Canada). He obtained his DPhil from University of Oxford (UK), and worked as a faculty member at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China) and Erasmus University Rotterdam, (Netherlands). He primary research interests include maritime management, transport geography, climate change, transport infrastructure planning and management, and global supply chains. He has (co-)authored three scholarly books, more than 40 papers in leading scholarly journals, and other forms of publications. He has received numerous prestigious accolades around the world. Notable examples include Fulbright Scholar Program (USA), Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australia), Universités Parisiennes Fellowship (France), Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (Canada), Associates’ Achievement Award for Outstanding Business Research (Canada), Eagle Prize for Outstanding Young Scholar in Maritime Research (International Association of Maritime Economists) (IAME), and several Best Paper Awards by various international transport, logistics, and supply chain conferences. With such expertise, he has provided strategic advice to major intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations (UN), European Commission (EC) and the African Development Bank (AFDB). Currently, he is a council member of IAME, Associate Editor of Maritime Policy & Management, Co-Editor of Journal of Transport Literature, Associate Editor of The Maritime Economist, and an editorial board member of reputable geography, transport, and logistics journals.

Author's Posts

A multiperiod model for assessing the socioeconomic impacts of oil spills during Arctic shipping

A multiperiod model for assessing the socioeconomic impacts of oil spills during Arctic shipping

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The Maritime Economist (ME-MAG): issue 8 is now published Noticeboard

The Maritime Economist (ME-MAG): issue 8 is now published

The 8th issue of Maritime Economist (ME-MAG), the magazine of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) has been published earlier this week. Celebrating the publication of the issue at the eve of the 29th edition of the annual conference of IAME, PortEconomics members and ME-MAG Editor in Chief, Prof. Adolf Ng,...
Climate change adaptation planning for ports Featured

Climate change adaptation planning for ports

The 2nd CCAPPTIA Conference Conference has successfully taken place on 28-30 June 2021. CCAPPTIA is an international forum that brings together leading experts, stakeholders, and right holders from academia, government, industry, consultants, interest groups, and community groups in addressing the challenges and opportunities posed...
The climate change strategies of seaports: mitigation vs. adaptation Category

The climate change strategies of seaports: mitigation vs. adaptation

The two major approaches that seaport operators adopt to address climate change impacts are mitigation (CCM), i.e., reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation (CCA), i.e., adjusting the facility to moderate the negative outcomes of climate change. PortEconomics member Adolf Ng has joined Changmi Jiang, Shiyuan Zheng,  Ying-En Ge,...
Climate change adaptation in the port industry: a complex of lingering research gaps and uncertainties Featured

Climate change adaptation in the port industry: a complex of lingering research gaps and uncertainties

Despite a rise in global attention to port managers’ actions on climate change, hitherto, they still face considerable challenges in reaching collective agreements on proactive policies and hands-on actions. Considering the influence of port as the middle- man of global trade and development, the study of PortEconomics member Adolf...
PortEconomics member leads research on COVID-19 impact on supply chains Featured

PortEconomics member leads research on COVID-19 impact on supply chains

PortEconomics member Adolf Ng was given grant as a part of $25 million in funding from the Government of Canada, through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to carry out a study on supply chains resilience under the pressure of a global pandemic like COVID-19. Adolf will study how resilient  supply chains are during the crisis,...
Leading scholars around the globe launch international consortium on Climate Change Adaptation & Arctic Shipping (CCAPPTIA) Featured

Leading scholars around the globe launch international consortium on Climate Change Adaptation & Arctic Shipping (CCAPPTIA)

PortEconomics members have joined leading maritime scholars around the globe in forming the International Forum on Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Port, Transportation Infrastructure, and the Arctic (CCAPPTIA). The forum was officially launched in August 2019, along with its website. Founded by seven scholars in Canada,...
Geography and institutional change: insights from a container terminal operator Containers

Geography and institutional change: insights from a container terminal operator

The relationship between space and institutional change by studying the evolution and development of Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), a Hong Kong-based firm with a highly-established institutional system, in the early 1990s is the theme of the latest port study of PortEconomics member Adolf Ng co authored with Kenneth Wong, K....
Implications of climate change for shipping: ports and supply chains Category

Implications of climate change for shipping: ports and supply chains

Ports are an important economic actor—at local, national, and international scales- that have been identified as being vulnerable to future changes to the climate. The latest port study of PortEconomics co-authored by Adolf K.Y. Ng along with Austin Becker (University of Rhode Island and University of Manitoba), Darryn McEvoy (RMIT...
Strategy formulation of new generation ports: the Hong-Kong case Featured

Strategy formulation of new generation ports: the Hong-Kong case

In 1992, UNCTAD outlined a three-generation model to classify different stages that the port industry has experienced. It illustrates that port evolution is not a linear progress but periodically with key events to re-start every stage. An important research question emerges on whether the port industry has involved to the new generation...
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