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April 28th, 2020
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PortEconomics member Michael Dooms presented his views on the next frontiers of port stakeholder management to the North-American port industry during last year's Greentech conference in Cleveland, USA. The Greentech conference is organized annually by GreenMarine, North-America's largest environmental certification scheme for ports and terminals. The keynote presentation addressed both the rationale, historical evolution and expected future of stakeholder management in ports. It highlights the need to develop more in-depth understanding...
April 27th, 2020
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Of the seventy-six ports surveyed across the globe in this week’s IAPH-WPSP Port Economic Impact Barometer Report, the majority reports a relatively stable situation compared to the previous weeks, with slight improvements noted in some areas of port continuity. Compiled by PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom and Thanos Pallis the fourth edition of the weekly IAPH-WPSP Port Economic Impact Barometer Report, published every Friday, covers worldwide port developments in Week 18 (20-27 April) 2020. The full report might be downloaded...
April 26th, 2020
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With COVID-19 turning port lives upside down, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)  has launched a weekly briefing of its membership throughout Europe on the latest developments – inviting PortEconomics members that have contributed to the life of the association to provide thoughts and reactions. In this week’s edition of “ESPO keeps going” Michael Dooms writes on the ports and the COVID-19 crisis from the angle of communication. How are ports communicating during this crisis? Strengthening the social license to operate...
April 22nd, 2020
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Edited by PortEconomics members Gordon Wilmsmeier and Jason Monios the new multidisciplinary book under the title "Geographies of maritime transport: transport, mobilities and spatial space", delivers a unique collection of well-considered, empirically rich and critical contributions on maritime transport geographies. It covers a wide range of markets and territories as well as institutional, environmental and future issues.  Maritime transport is a constantly evolving critical transport mode, thoroughly explored in this timely book from...
April 20th, 2020
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With the exception of the COVID-19 days, cruise has witnessed an uninterrupted growth over each year of the last three decades. In their study, "the changing geography of cruise shipping", Thanos Pallis and George Vaggelas discuss the trends that have been linked with this growth and detail the business strategies that the industry has developed in support of the observed growth and spatial expansion. Understanding the changing geography and the particulars of the seemingly unstoppable, globalization of cruise shipping, is important.  On...
April 19th, 2020
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The mobility of passengers and freight is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, distributing goods, or supplying energy. Each movement has a purpose, an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, and a destination. Mobility is supported and driven by transport systems which are composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals. They enable individuals, institutions, corporations, regions and nations to interact and assume economic, social, cultural or political activities. Understanding how...
April 18th, 2020
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Cruise lines have revised their return plans regarding the intended return in operation. In an updated PortGraphic, PortEconomic members Thanos Pallis, Aimilia Papachristou, and George Vaggelas present the expected return date per cruise line, as of April 17, 2020, facilitating cruise ports, destinations, and stakeholders to adjust their respective plans. Whether they illustrate realistic or optimistic perspectives, or even just strategic early-return announcements, following cruise lines statements provide to cruise ports readiness to...
April 16th, 2020
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The Week-16 results of the IAPH-WPSP Weekly Port Economic Impact Barometer show COVID-19 crisis has 35% of ports reporting an increase in the utilization of warehousing and distribution facilities in the last week for foodstuffs and medical supplies, whilst other ports report both over- and under-utilization of their storage facilities, depending on cargo type. The second weekly results of the World Ports Sustainability Programme’s (WPSP) Port Economic Impact Barometer have been published at the World Ports COVID19 Information Portal,...
April 16th, 2020
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Which are the impacts of Coronavirus on trade and supply chains? PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue analyzed them in a (remote) presentation to the advisory board of METRANS Transportation Center. Follow the link to download the presentation.
April 11th, 2020
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Are you a port professional interested in shaping the future of ports? We have the pleasure to invite you to participate in our Global Survey on Port Governance. The study - developed by a research team at Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia and University of the Aegean, Greece - has two purposes: a) to analyse the current structure and functions of port governance around the globe, b) to provide the foundations for discussions of future port governance models. The questionnaire is divided into seven (7) sections. Each section...
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