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September 17th, 2015
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By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Why Transshipment? Ideally, a passenger wishing to fly from one city to another would prefer to have a direct flight. However, this is not commonly the case unless one is using the largest airports in the world such as London, Paris. New York, Hong Kong or Dubai. Even from these airports, direct flights to a wide range of destinations would not be available. The most common reason is that there is not enough volume to justify a direct service with some level of frequency. Therefore, to cope with these constraints...
September 17th, 2015
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By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Panama Canal nears completion on a new set of locks that are expected to impact trade and the world's economy. Explore the future of the Canal as detailed in a WPBT2 Production - containing comments by PortEconomics member Jean Paul Rodrigue.  ...
September 17th, 2015
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There's certainly been a lot of chatter around New York about infrastructure and about the local port authority, but most of the press, traditional media and online coverage has not been about maritime things. The biggest headlines have been garnered by plans for a new $4bn revamp of the 1960s vintage LaGuardia Airport (which, sensibly, would include a ferry link to the business areas of Manhattan), writes Barry Parker. Peter de Langen through his column "The Analyst" in Port Strategy comments:  "With high profile rail fails, a new...
September 15th, 2015
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The cruise sector is one of the fastest growing market segments in shipping and seaport activities. However, the high level of market concentration and the geographical concentration of passenger flows at departure ports and destinations lead to possible congestion and delays in handling cruise vessels and passenger services. The increasing importance of coordination, cooperation, and vertical/horizontal integration may effectively impact the performance of cruise lines, cruise ports, and involved service providers. The scale of vertical...
August 28th, 2015
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The Meditteranean and its adjoining seas have transformed to a multi-port cruise region hosting several millions of passenger movements, with  the intra-region dynamics remaining unexplored. In their latest study,  PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis along with Kleopatra Arapi (University of the Aegean), generates knowledge on the patterns, structures, and growth geography in the second biggest cruise port in the last decade (2005-2014). The analysis of the passenger movements data provided by 69 cruise ports detail the port...
August 23rd, 2015
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By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Successive explosions at the port of Tianjin, the third largest in the world in terms of tonnage and the 10th largest in terms of container volumes, resulted in deadly blasts in the Chinese port city. PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue, describes the anatomy of the disaster - and provides his input during an inverview on the national Chinese national television (CCTV) on August 17 on this topic. "Ports are significant consumers of land involving terminal operations as well as port-centric logistics...
August 23rd, 2015
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The 2015 Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) starts on Monday 24 August in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, with PortEconomics member preparing to present the latest of their port research. The theme of this year's conference organised by the MIT Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain innovation is "The Role of Maritime Clusters and Innovation in Shaping Future Global Trade". Maritime economists from all five continents are gathering together for attending the flagship annual event of their international...
August 23rd, 2015
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The 13th meeting of the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) takes place on Sunday, 23rd August, in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, with PortEconomics members meeting together with fellow maritime economists interested in port research at the eve of the 2015 Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME). PPRN is an informal network of maritime economists interested in issues of port policy. It was established at the IAME 2001 meeting in Hong Kong to undertake empirical testing of port governance, and is...
August 21st, 2015
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By Theo Notteboom Recently, Hamburg announced that container throughput in the Elbe port saw a decline of 6.8% in the first half of 2015 compared to the same period last year, mainly caused by a sharp decrease in the trade volumes with Russia and China. The container business is generally considered as a growth sector. Over the past decades, ports around the world have become used to welcoming traffic growth year after year. A decline in container traffic is considered as unusual. But how often have ports reported cargo losses over the...
August 6th, 2015
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Port research has been focusing increasingly on performance management. A great deal of port studies have pointed out that port performance management has evolved from mere financial measurements to a multitude of indicators, and that the subject being measured can range from micro-level (an organization), meso-level (industry) to macro-level (regional or national) performance. PortEconomics member Michael Dooms, along with Mychal Langenus (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), on their latest port study - published in the International Journal of...
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