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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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Cruise ports: why cruises start and stop where they do
PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue was interviewed by the Atlantic Cities website (www.atlanticcities.com) about cruise ports, an interview based on a recent research conducted with PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom on the "geography of cruises". When we think of cruises, most of us consider the luxury ships themselves as the attraction — not the ports they visit. Jean-Paul and Theo studied cruise itineraries from all over the world and found that companies pay a great deal of attention to port selection as a means of...
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UNCTAD discussions on port performance
PortEconomics associated member Mary Brooks chaired the UNCTAD discussions on possible ways to measure and compare the performance of seaports, during an Ad Hoc Expert Meeting on Assessing Port Performance that was held in Geneva on December 12, 20012. Mary also delivered a presentation on the measurement of port effectiveness in port service delivery. More than 80 per cent of merchandise trade by volume is seaborne, and the share is even higher for most developing countries. In many cases, over 95 per cent of a developing...
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European ports policy review conference (day 2): the PortEconomics diary
PortEconomics followed the high-level Conference on European Ports Policy Review: "Unlocking the Growth Potential" (Brussels, 25-26 September 2012) and reports events, interventions, and all you want to know about the final second Conference day as unfolded: Day-2: Wednesday 26 September 2012 Workshop on Port Performance and the Horizon 2020: PortEconomics co-directors Thanos Pallis and Theo Notteboom to offer their perspectives on the future of the European port policy, joined by Martijn van Dongen (Head of Business...
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