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November 21st, 2014
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UNCTAD announced the publication of the 2014 of the Review of Maritime Transport. Published annually since 1968, the Review of Maritime Transport is UNCTAD's oldest flagship publication and provides coverage of key developments affecting international seaborne trade, ports, shipping, the world fleet, freight markets, and transport-related regulatory and legal frameworks. Chapter 4 is devoted in seaports. With world container port throughput increasing by an estimated 5.6 per cent to 651.1 million TEUs in 2013, the share of port throughput...
November 11th, 2014
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"What drives the competitiveness of ports? Is it sufficient draft to accommodate ever larger vessels, productivity, high quality hinterland infrastructure or well-functioning port community systems, asks Peter de Langen, co-director of PortEconomics in his viewpoint- published in his Port Strategy column as 'The Analyst'. Peter discusses how the different elements make up an innovation ecosystem, including an entrepreneurial culture, the availability of venture capital, education institutions, incubators and regulation that encourages...
November 5th, 2014
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PortEconomics associate member Mary R. Brooks has been appointed as Vice-Chair of the US Marine Board, as of 1st of November. The 20-member Board consists of top-level researchers, executives, and practitioners, from both the public and private sectors. The new and continuing members reflect the many disciplines and areas of expertise within the maritime sector. Formed in 1965, the Marine Board is an internationally recognized source of expertise on maritime transportation and marine engineering and technology. In response to requests from...
November 5th, 2014
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The history of transportation security regulations in Canada, is the theme of the study 'Maritime Security in Canada' developed by PortEconomics associate member Mary Brooks and published in the form of a chaptet of the book Maritime Transport Security. The work makes particular note of the influence of American security policy on Canada's maritime security situation. Maritime security issues in Canada cannot be isolated from those of the United States for historical reasons going back to the time of Fortress North America during World War...
October 27th, 2014
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PortEconomics member Francesco Parola has been appointed as an Associate Editor of Maritime Policy & Management (MPM). MPM is a multi-disciplinary and international refereed journal, that brings together papers on the different topics that concern the maritime industry. MPM, which recently celebrated the 40 years anniversary, is an official journal of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME). According to 2013 Journal Citation Reports of Thompson Reuters its 2013 Impact Factor has increased to 1.447 (13/29 in the...
October 19th, 2014
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A most successful edition of the PortExecutive Seminar (PES) concluded in Naples, receiving excellent evaluations by the 19 participants that joined PES from four different continents. The first day of PES 2014, members of the PortExecutive team interacted with participating port and port-related professionals discussing the driving forces of change in the port sector, the latest development in shipping, terminal operations, and port authorities strategies. The second day, the seminar provided an in-depth analysis of cruise ports, port...
October 17th, 2014
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Α number of solutions that can bring profound benefits to the whole Port Logistics industry and individual companies; from modelling and optimising rail and truck movements in and around seaports, to greater visibility of freight movements, improved freight connectivity and pricing will be the theme of a webinar lecture by PortEconomics member Thomas Vitsounis - to take place on November 20. The new advertisement in your web browser about sinks does not coincidently appear just as you are about to renovate your house. The best time to book...
August 6th, 2014
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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...
May 16th, 2014
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Theo Notteboom, PortEconomics co-director, provided an outlook of trends in the European port industry to port authorities and port sector experts that gathered in Sweden during the ESPO 2014 Conference. Theo presented the signs of recovery, although the traffic volumes are below those of 2008. There is a recovery in dry bulk while liquid bulk is declining, whereas Container business is on the rise with 27%. The LNG market for bunkering is a very important and booming market that will play a significant role in the future. LNG for bunkering...
May 15th, 2014
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PortEconomics co-directors and several members of the PortEconomics team are in Gothenburg, Sweden, to attend the European Sea Ports Organisation 2014 Conference. While they shape discussion of the conference they provide to the readers of our initiative the "PortEconomics diary" live from Gothenburg. Under the overall theme "level playing field between ports, a must or a myth", the conference aims at giving some more substance to this concept by looking how ports compete at different levels, which factors determine competition, which...
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