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PortEconomics supports the European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism & Ports - ECONSHIP 2015
PortEconomics suppports the second edition of the European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism and Ports – ECONSHIP 2015, to be held in Chios Greece, 24-27 June 2015. Following the successful first edition of 2011, ECONSHIP 2015 invites researchers to submit papers on the theme “Shipping and Ports at Crossroads: Competition, Global Sourcing and Regulatory Challenges”. Competitiveness, efficiency and effectiveness stand as core targets of today’s corporate strategies of shipping and ports, and mark relevant regulatory initiatives...
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Port industry performance management: a mesolevel gap in literature & practice
What has the European port industry done for monitoring its performance the last decade? PortEconomics member Michael Dooms together with Mychal Langenus (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) presented their latest study titled 'Port Industry Performance Management: a mesolevel gap in literature and practice?' during the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists - IAME 2014, that was held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Over the past few decades, academic literature has been focusing increasingly on performance...
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Incentives in cruise terminal concession contracts
Concession contracts are widely used to structure the relationship between public managing bodies of ports who own the land and terminal operators who are granted the right to exploit the land for an agreed period of time. Academic literature primarily discusses concession contracts related to cargo terminals. However, common arrangements in concession contracts for cargo handling services may or may not work in a cruise setting. PortEconomics co-directors Theo Notteboom and Thanos Pallis, together with Grace Wang (Department of Maritime...
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How can cruise ports associations represent the sector best?
When the issue of "How ports and cruise line associations can best serve the sector" is the focal point of many involved in the cruise sector, PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis intervenes in the debate, under his capacity as Secretary General of MedCruise, in an article co-authored by Stavros Hatzakos, ΜedCruise President. The viewpoint is included in the latest Cruise & Ferries "Itinerary Planning" special report - and might be downloaded @ PortEconomics....
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Clique survival in the port industry network: a longitudinal perspective
PortEconomics associate member Francesco Parola (Department of Business Studies, University of Naples “Parthenope”), along with Giovanni Satta (Department of Economics and Management, University of Genoa) and Simone Caschili (UCL QASER Lab & Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London) presented their latest research on "Social and instrumental antecedents of clique survival in the port industry network: A longitudinal perspective" during the the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime...
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PortEconomics members shape IAME2014
The annual conference of the International Association of PortΕconomics - IAME 2014, that was held 15-18 July in Norfolk, Virginia provided to the PortEconomics team the opportunity to present the port research that they conducted over the last year. In total, PortEconomics members presented 25 different port or port related studies that progressed over the course of the last months, shaping research developments in the emerging research field of port economics, policy and management, as well as in port related studies. Over the next...
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On global container shipping: dealing with overcapacity and declining revenue
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, member of the PortEconomics team joins CCTV America, for an interview on the global (container) shipping industry, discussing, among others, why China ruled out the P3 agreement, and what might be expected next given the presence of overcapacity and declining revenues for shipping lines. Jean-Paul's interview was given as part of the channel's coverage of the latest developments in ports in Greece and the country's decission to privatise its major ports, through a process termed by CCTV America as a 'sell-off'. You...
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The Analyst: measuring throughput & the need for global standards
Can we compare throughput figures published by ports? What is the practice today and do we need global standards? In his viewpoint - published in his Port Strategy column ast 'the Analyst', PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen recaps: 'According to the Port of Antwerp, throughput figures of different ports cannot be compared as ports do not use uniform definitions: some ports (most importantly Singapore) apparently use freight tons (metric tons or volume tons, whichever is higher). According to Antwerp's estimates, Singapore...
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