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Americas 1H2023: Is port activity accelerating or decelerating?
By Ricarod J Sanchez The world economy continues to show signs, sometimes contradictory, of both recovery and decline, which extend over time. Uncertainty and volatility have become part of normalcy because of a succession of crises. The pandemic crisis was a human, social and economic scourge of enormous magnitude at a planetary level, and its effects have yet to disappear completely. Moreover, the health emergency was compounded by the intensity of climate phenomena -such as the recent droughts-, the growing geopolitical tensions,...
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ESG in ports: transparency and integrity
Transparency of port governance is an integral part of the implementation of ESG practices in the port sector, advocated Thanos Pallis during a presentation delivered at the Symposium on “ESG and the Port Industry” that was held on the 21st of June in Piraeus, Greece Thanos presentation explored “The transparency of port governance” and detailed major findings of the scholarly research that he has recently concluded and published with fellow PortEconomics members Geraldine Knatz, Mary Brooks and Gordon Wilmsmeier, on the transparency...
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OECD Peer Learning Group meeting of the Production Transformation Policy Review (PTPR-PLG) of Republic of Togo
PortEconomics members Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Pierre Cariou, participated in the Peer Learning Group Meeting on the Production Transformation Policy Review (PTPR-PLG) of Togo that took place in Paris OECD headquarter on July 4, 2023. The PTPR-PLG meetings aim to enable targeted peer dialogue on critical issues and identify lessons learned to improve the quality of the policy process based on peer review and multi-stakeholder dialogue. The meeting was organized by the Republic of Togo and the OECD Development Center, in cooperation with ECA...
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Impact of the Mediterranean sulfur emission control area on trade and countries
The latest study of PortEconomics member Pierre Cariou co-authored with Jason Monios, Alice Thébault-Guët (KEDGE Business School), and Ronald Halim (Equitable Maritime Consulting) titled The Impact of the Mediterranean Sulfur Emission Control Area (SECA) on trade and countries, recently presented in a two-day conference held in Le Havre on Data and Maritime Sustainability from May 25th to 26th, 2023. The paper was motivated by the fact that, despite the general consensus on the benefits of implementing SECA, it took 15 years for...
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Ιmpact of IMO sustainable policy and data management on maritime industry
The impact of IMO sustainable policy and data management on the maritime industry was the theme of the recent presentation delivered by PortEconomics member Pierre Cariou in the context of Data and Maritime Sustainability conference held in Le Havre on May 25-26. Pierre- during his comprehensive presentation- highlighted the crucial issue of carbon emissions in international shipping. Despite the implementation of numerous solutions over the past year, the long-term projections still exceed the necessary measures for reducing the shipping...
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Top-20 container ports in the Caribbean in 2022
By Ricardo Sanchez The following chart shows the evolution of Top-20 container ports between 2021 and 2022. Sources: CSA and port authorities. The top-20 sample is approximately 82% of the container ports activity in the Greater Caribbean, excluding Mexico. The year 2022 shows an extremely slight growth of the top 20 Caribbean ports regarding 2021 (just 0.2%), with some ports strongly increasing (Panama Caribbean, Kingston JA, Caucedo RD, Honduras and T&T) and others with soft to sharped declines. In 2022, the top 20 ports...
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Innovation ecosystems in ports: a comparative analysis of Rotterdam and Valencia
The term ‘innovation ecosystem’ has become popular among stakeholders involved in innovation. The core idea is that innovation does not thrive through isolated actions of individual companies, but rather depends on a broad array of interrelated actors, institutions and policies. In the latest portstudy of PortEconomics members Peter de Langen and Jonas Mendes Constante joined by Salvador Furió Pruñonosa (Valenciaport Foundation, Spain) apply the concept of innovation ecosystems to ports by first providing a theoretical overview of...
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Top-15 container ports in European Union in 2022
PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom compiled a list of the top 15 container ports in the European Union (EU) in 2022 based on the container throughput in TEU and analyses the findings. "While the ranking of the top 15 container ports in the European Union (EU) in 2022 based on the container throughput in TEU might be a mere distraction from other major port-related themes such as sustainability, energy transition, and supply chain resilience, the table provides more insight on the EU container port landscape: The...
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