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The relations between dry port characteristics and regional port-hinterland settings: findings for a global sample of dry ports
The latest port study of PortEconomics member Theo Notteboom co-authored with Lam Canh Nguyen (Vietnam Maritime University) aims at defining generic characteristics of dry ports by carrying out an analysis using a large sample of dry ports from around the world. The dataset included in the study details on 107 inland terminals worldwide. All dry ports in the database have been selected from studies in the extant literature before being shortlisted to fit our research scope. Data collected include terminologies used, actors driving the...
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Cruise shipping and green ports: a strategic challenge
Cruise is a maritime activity on continuous growth for more than three decades. With the positive direct and indirect impacts diffused to the port cities or nearby touristic destinations, cruise seaports are gaining importance. The interest in hosting more cruise calls and cruise passenger movements has been supported, in general, by broader communities and decision makers. Still growing cruise business, like any other economic activity, is also associated with externalities raising social, economic, and environmental questions and...
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Green ports: inland and seaside sustainable transportation strategies
Ports today play a greater role than simply handling cargo on the quayside. The sources of their competition and the extent of their influence stretch across the sea and also deep into the hinterland. Their management and operational strategies are entwined with stakeholders on several scales and in many spheres, from local to global and from business to government. The port’s role in the transport chain has the potential to shape the social and environmental performance of transportation systems extending across the globe. While many...
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The Analyst: upside to container line alliances
By Peter de Langen The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is at it again, this time with a report that argues alliances between container shipping companies may have negative impacts on users and society at large In short, according to the report, alliances have helped create overcapacity, made maritime transport services more uniform and contributed to lower service frequencies, fewer direct port-to-port connections, declining schedule reliability and longer waiting times. I have some concerns about the analysis,...
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The impact of emerging digital technologies on logistics centres’ business models
Transport and logistics are expected to be in the future among the service sectors most impacted by Industry 4.0, due to the array of innovative applications that will be developed from emerging digital technologies related to both smart transports and “mobility as a service”. In this perspective, logistics centres constitute a fruitful research field for assessing the impact of incoming technologies on the business models of logistics companies operating in these centres, which play a pivotal role in international supply chains by...
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CO2 emission reductions of the global container ship fleet, 2007-2016: how much and why?
PortEconomics members Pierre Cariou, Francesco Parola and Theo Notteboom are the authors of a paper entitled "Towards low carbon global supply chains: A multi-trade analysis of CO2 emission reductions in container shipping". This study has just been published in the highly-ranked academic journal International Journal of Production Economics (volume 208, pages 17-28). The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed in 2018 on a reduction of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international shipping. The study identifies the...
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Sea-land interdependence in the global maritime network: the case of Australian port cities
PortEconomics member César Ducruet, and Justin Berli (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, Paris, France) and Mattia Bunel (Institut Géographique National, COGIT Saint-Mandé, France)- on their latest study, published at Networks and Spatial Economics latest issue, discuss main results in the light of network science, spatial science, and transport studies. Their study tackles the longstanding issue of intermodality head on. From ageomatics perspective, the authors model both maritime...
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Reflections: 50 Years of UNCTAD's Review of Maritime Transport, 1968-2018
PortEconomics members Mary Brooks and Patrick Verhoeven celebrate and contribute, along with other eminent guest essayists, in the history of the Review of Maritime Transport over the past 50 years, a publication that examines the past and future of maritime transport and its part in trade and development. Mary Brooks analyses the results of a survey exploring the opinion of some UNCTAD staff, selected UNCTAD collaborators and partners, as well as International Association of Maritime Economists members on how is the future of maritime...
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