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PortEconomics member joins Asian Journal of Shipping & Logistics (AJSL)
PortEconomics associate member Adolf K.Y. Ng has been appointed as an Editorial Board Member of the Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics (AJSL). AJSL intends to be an outlet for theoretical and empirical research contributions for scholars and specialists in the business of shipping and logistics. A multi-disciplinary and international refereed journal, it brings together papers on the many different topics that concern the fields of shipping and logistics. For more information about the journal, visit the journal's website....
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DEVPORT project maps logistics corridors in N. France maritime regions
PortEconomics Associate member Cesar Ducruet act as a member of the research team of DEVPORT project. DEVPORT project - a regionally funded project coordinated by Prof. Laurent Leveque (Le Havre University) aiming at mapping the logistics corridor of the Seine Axis at different scales and applying modeling and GIS methods as well as results from interviews to various industries such as freight forwarding to estimate its current and future development opportunities. The DEVPORT project relies notably on the development of a Geographic...
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The (European) Port Performance Dashboard: 2nd edition
Last week, ESPO launched its Port Performance Review, which addresses the socio-economic impact of ports, environmental impact, the intermodal connectivity of the EU port system and general market and governance trends in ports across Europe. Port authorities in Europe are kindly invited to contribute before 15 April. The data collected will feed the second edition of the Port Performance Dashboard, which was initiated in 2012 as part of the European Commission co-funded PPRISM project. The indicators to be monitored are the outcome of...
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Port labour in the European Union: one day conference
On 14 May 2013, Portius is organising a one-day conference on Port Labour in the European Union. The reform of port labour has been on the European agenda for almost 25 years. In 1991, the Court of Justice found the Italian dock labour scheme to be contrary to the European treaty rules. Ten years later, the European Commission unveiled its first liberalisation plans. However, the European Parliament has since twice rejected a proposed liberalisation directive for ports, with protest from dock workers playing an influential role. In...
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PortEconomics @ EC’s scoping workshop on sea ports and climate change
Porteconomics associate member Adolf K.Y. Ng was invited as an Expert to the European Commission's (EC) Scoping Workshop on Seaports and Climate Change, organized by the Joint Research Centre of the EC, taken place in Brussels, 4-5 March 2013. During the meeting, he delivered a presentation, entitled: "Climate Change Adaptation Planning under an Uncertain Environment". He theorized the issue of climate change and adaptation by seaports from the institutional perspective. He argued that the challenges of climate adaptation planning, and the...
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Container shipping lines: short sea and intra-european
PortEconomics.eu co-director Theo Notteboom gave an introduction and moderated a session on 'Container shipping lines: short sea and intra-European' during the Coastlink conference held in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 20 and 21 February 2013. The entire conference was devoted to the impact of 18,000 TEU vessels on Intra-European Networks. During the short sea panel debate representatives from CMA CGM, the Flemish government and the European Freight and Logistics Leaders Forum presented their views on a wide range of key issues, such as...
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UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2012 published
UNCTAD has published the Review of Maritime Transport 2012- a review that has provided 44 years of uninterrupted coverage of the key developments affecting international seaborne trade, ports, shipping, the world fleet, freight markets, and transport-related regulatory and legal frameworks. UNCTAD's Review also covers inland transport and intermodal connections. In common with previous issues, the 2012 Review contains critical analysis and a wealth of unique data, including long-term data series on port handling activities. Chapter 4...
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Trajectories of change in ports: the role of institutional frameworks
A collection of port studies that explore the changing relationship between institutional frameworks and the development of transportation nodes are included in the recently published special issue of the journal Journal of Transport Geography. The theme of this issue of the prestigious scholarly journal (vol. 27, 2013) is "Institutional Frameworks and the Transformation of Transport Nodes", with PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis, associate member Adolf Ng, and Prof. Peter Hall (Simon Fraser, Vancouver CA) acting as guest editors. As...
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