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LIVE: The PortEconomics Diary: #ESPO2018 Day 2
PortEconomics is attending the second day of the #ESPO2018, the annual conference of the European Sea Ports Association (ESPO) and provides live coverage of all you want to know about the latest discussions of European port authorities. * You might recap discussions of the first day of #ESPO2018 via The PortEconomics Diary: #ESPO2018 Day 1 Day 2 Erik DE NEEF, Chairman Koninklijke Roeiers Vereeniging Eendracht, opens discussions of the second Investing in efficient, sustainable and safe mooring operations: "Safe mooring in every port....
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LIVE: The PortEconomics Diary: #ESPO2018 Day 1
PortEconomics is at #ESPO2018, the annual conference of the European Sea Ports Association (ESPO) and provides you live coverage of all you want to know about the latest discussions of European port authorities. Eamonn O’REILLY, Chairman, ESPO: "Developing a basic infrastructure to serve Europe is more than important. Energy and climate challenges change the environment. Building acceptance, societal integration of the projects if we are going to build, is too important. TEN-t networks demand inter-border relations, transnational...
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Portgraphic: top-20 EU container ports, q1 2018
By Theo Notteboom The PortGraphic shows the container throughput growth for Q1 2018 in the top 20 EU container ports. Not all ports have published figures for Q1 2018 yet. Most ports show healthy growth with many ports reaching double-digit growth. Top performers include Gdansk (+47%!), Piraeus, Barcelona & Zeebrugge. Valencia, Algeciras & Piraeus are contending for the number one spot in the (European) Med. Europe's largest container ports, Rotterdam and Antwerp, remain on the strong growth paths of the past few years, while...
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The Analyst: flexibility key to wind ambitions
By Peter de Langen This year’s Danish Port Days were held in Esbjerg, with the theme of ‘port transformations’ guiding a conference that included sessions where academics and industry leaders discussed management research issues worth exploring One of those issues came straight from a tour of the port: over the last few years Esbjerg has developed into the leading Danish offshore wind port, hosting a large number of companies involved in construction, assembly, and transport of components of offshore windmills, as well as related...
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Marketing of port authorities: a novel conceptualisation
Port authorities have transformed to hybrid organizations mostly disassociated from operational activities and port services provision. Still, they maintain a key role as managing bodies advancing the prospects of respective port and associate clusters. Marketing is among the functions working towards this end. In a new port study, PortEconomics members Francesco Parola and Thanos Pallis - joined by Marcello Risitano and Marco Ferretti - develop an innovative conceptualization of the marketing strategies developed by Port Authorities...
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What makes a competitive hub in a interconnected world?
An introductory presentation on the theme "What makes a competitive hub?" gave PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom during the World Ports Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 8 to 11 May 2018. Theo moderated also the panel debate on the same theme during of which panelists shared experiences from Panama, Djibouti, Trieste and Dubai as well as the EU on how to develop successful logistics hubs. Guimara Tuñón Guerra, Gilles Bergot, Michael Proffitt, Zeno...
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Environmental differentiated port pricing: the case of the Hamburg-Le Havre range
Contested industries have fallen under increased scrutiny of the public eye when it comes to their environmental performance. In particular the transport industry is still considered as a large polluter. Therefore, stakeholders put pressure on the industry to work on their environmental footprint. Shippers assess whether their supply chain as a whole can be increasingly ‘greened’, given increasing environmental awareness from both customers (in B2B settings) and consumers (in B2C settings). Ports, as important nodes in transport...
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Port cooperation in the North Adriatic ports
Recent trends in port development show that ports are making increasing efforts to forge mutually beneficial cooperation strategies, particularly ports sharing a common hinterland. PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen co-authored with Kristijan Stamatović and Aleš Groznik (University of Ljubljana) an analysis of the North Adriatic ports (Koper, Rijeka, Trieste and Venice) with a focus on two related themes. First, the complementarity of the North Adriatic (NA) ports in the container market is analysed based on port vessel service...
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