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The impact of management practices use on brazilian port authorities’ performance
The relation between management practices and the performance of Brazilian port authorities is the latest port study of PortEconomics members Peter De Langen, Jonas Mendes Constante and Larissa van der Lugt along with Guilherme Bergmann Borges Vieira, Rogério João Lunkes. The authors developed a survey-based evaluation tool of the quality of management practices . In addition, a set of operational and financial performance indicators of such port authorities and their ports was calculated. The differences in operational and financial...
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Measuring the social license to operate for ports
PortEconomics member Michael Dooms presented the results of a survey conducted along with Bruno Moeremans (Vrije University Brussels) during the 16th World Conference of AIVP held in 11-14 June 2018 in Quebec, Canada. With his presentation, Michael discussed the following issues: a. Challenges of port managing bodies in terms of SDGs: Stakeholder inclusion (needs to move from ad-hoc involvement to continuous inclusion) Integrated planning (from node-based to supply chain): an efficient supply chain will be a green supply chain! ...
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PortEconomics coordinated Chios Symposium on European port policy marked by success
A fruitful and productive Jean Monnet Symposium on “The future of the Future of the European Port Policy” took place on the island of Chios during the 28th and 29th of June 2018. The Symposium was scientifically coordinated by PorteEconomics.eu and organised by the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of University of the Aegean - and PortEconomics will soon make available all Conference presentations. Inaugurated by the Mayor of Chios, the Symposium was attended by more than 110 participants, representing port authorities,...
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Blockchains for logistics: from hype to relevance?
By Jean-Paul Rodrigue An artificial consensus While presenting at recent transportation trade conferences I expressed rather skeptical views about the potential of Blockchains for logistics, which raised a few eyebrows and critiques. The industry is currently drinking its own cool-aid and caught in the standard hype cycle where the benefits of a new technology are exaggerated while the complexity and costs of its implementation are discounted. Many do not understand well what it entails from a technological, managerial and operational...
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Port co-operation: types, drivers and impediments
The port industry has witnessed a multiplication of port co-operation and integration schemes in recent years partly driven by governance reforms, public policy, political forces and market pressures. PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom, Francesco Parola and Geraldine Knatz co-edit a themed volume in the academic journal Research in Transportation Management and Business, including some major contributions on port co-operation. The edited volume contains a guest editorial and 13 full papers specifically focusing on port co-operation...
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Port authorities willingness to cooperate: effects of objective orientation & service differentiation
Τhe effects of the objective orientation of port authorities and the level of service differentiation on the capacity, service price, profits and welfare among competing or cooperating ports are analysed in the latest port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom co-authored with Han Cui (University of Antwerp). Theo and Han examined feasible combinations of these two factors (private objective level and service differentiation) to promote port co-operation. They applied the model starting from a mixed duopoly where a landlord...
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Infrastructure investment needs and financing challenges of European ports
The infrastructure investment needs and financing challenges of European ports was the presentation theme that was given by PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen during the ESPO2018 conference that held in Rotterdam in 30/06-01/07. The presentation was the results the results of a study co-authored with Martina Fontanet, Mateu Turróa and Jordi Caballé and which revealed that the investment needs of EU ports that are driven by external develop, create economic value as well as societal value while Peter also gave emphasis to the...
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Towards smarter port-city stakeholder collaboration?
A better understanding of what matters to whom… from the Court to the Cloud! The emergence of the expansion mindset Port managing bodies and the cities located near or around them often have long, common histories of joint economic and social development. For a number of ports, this has been extensively documented by researchers in economic and social history. Often, port development, through mostly outward expansion projects has led, especially during the second half of the 20thcentury, to great sacrifices by surrounding local...
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