PortReport

April 5th, 2025
PortReport

Download PortReport 7-East Coast of South America: Between Aspirations and Realities The PortReport 7 - authored by Alejandra Gómez-Paz and PortEconomics member, Ricardo J. Sánchez, explores the evolving landscape of maritime connectivity in the East Coast of South America (ECSA), the interplay of trade demands, infrastructure development, governance, and global sustainability goals, assessing how these factors shape liner service networks. The report differentiates between accessibility—the ability to connect physically via port...
March 13th, 2025
PortReport

Download PortReport No 6 – Understanding Risk Dynamics in Contemporary Maritime Logistics: A "Meteor Shower" of Challenges A real “meteor shower” of disruptive forces is currently impacting international trade and maritime logistics, fundamentally challenging conventional strategic, operational and economic paradigms. PortEconomics member Ricardo J. Sánchez and Rodolfo Sabonge explore this unprecedented complexity in their latest PortReport, where they analyse the convergence of multiple risks and facts —exogenous, endogenous,...
March 19th, 2024
PortReport

The report has been made available for public use, this time summarising results from the second half of 2023 as reported by IAPH members during the first quarter of 2024. The 110-page report, co-authored by founder-members of PortEconomics, Professor Theo Notteboom and Professor Thanos Pallis, contains regional breakdowns as well as micro-analyses of the latest data from IAPH member port respondees, the S&P Global Port Performance Program and the UNCTAD Liner Shipping Connectivity Index. The summary highlights of the...
June 22nd, 2020
PortReport

Download PortReport No 5 - Transparency in governance: seaport practices PortReport No 5 explores the levels and standards of transparency in the governance of ports. Key actors in port governance, such as government departments involved in port policy-making, port authorities, and port regulators need to be transparent about their behavior, policies, and practices as a way of enhancing economic performance and accountability to their stakeholders, particularly the community that hosts the port. The report explores the availability of...
May 28th, 2020
PortReport

Download PortReport No 4 - Changing demand for maritime trades Effective planning for transport infrastructures such as ports and their connections to roads, railways and inland waterways, requires foresight of what possible future maritime trade flows could look like. The future of maritime trade demand remains by nature uncertain. Due to the diversity in commodities transported at sea (oil, coal, iron ore, grain, general and containerized cargoes…), each trade could be subject to a specific analysis as maritime flows are affected by a...
January 14th, 2019
PortReport

Download PortReport No 3 - Reflections on the future of container ports in view of the new containerization behavior. Almost from its inception, there has been a clear upward trend in the disruptive force of the container during its use. However, a relative decrease in container movement has been seen in recent years although the explanation of which goes beyond disturbances in the world economy. PortEconomics member Ricardo Sanchez along with Eliana Barleta notice that the inter-annual change in throughput with respect to changes in GDP is...
August 28th, 2017
PortReport

Download PortReport No 2- Caribbean container port catchment areas: 1998-2016 evolution and the risk of over-investment Almost from its inception, there has been a clear upward trend in the disruptive force of the container during its use. However, a relative decrease in container movement has been seen in recent years although the explanation of which goes beyond disturbances in the world economy. PortEconomics member Ricardo Sanchez along with Eliana Barleta notice that the inter-annual change in throughput with respect to changes in GDP...
April 16th, 2016
PortReport

Download PortReport No 1- Competition and complementarity between seaports and hinterlands for distribution activities PortEconomics celebrates the launching of PortReports, a PortEconomics series aiming to enrich business and academic insights related to the port sector. In PortReport No 1 -  authored by Jason Monios, Theo Notteboom, Gordon Wilmsmeier and Jean-Paul Rodrigue,  readers have the chance to identify types of distribution activities that ports are suitable locations for, and which of such activities are best suited to...