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Cruise shipping and green ports: a strategic challenge
Cruise is a maritime activity on continuous growth for more than three decades. With the positive direct and indirect impacts diffused to the port cities or nearby touristic destinations, cruise seaports are gaining importance. The interest in hosting more cruise calls and cruise passenger movements has been supported, in general, by broader communities and decision makers. Still growing cruise business, like any other economic activity, is also associated with externalities raising social, economic, and environmental questions and...
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The impact of emerging digital technologies on logistics centres’ business models
Transport and logistics are expected to be in the future among the service sectors most impacted by Industry 4.0, due to the array of innovative applications that will be developed from emerging digital technologies related to both smart transports and “mobility as a service”. In this perspective, logistics centres constitute a fruitful research field for assessing the impact of incoming technologies on the business models of logistics companies operating in these centres, which play a pivotal role in international supply chains by...
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CO2 emission reductions of the global container ship fleet, 2007-2016: how much and why?
PortEconomics members Pierre Cariou, Francesco Parola and Theo Notteboom are the authors of a paper entitled "Towards low carbon global supply chains: A multi-trade analysis of CO2 emission reductions in container shipping". This study has just been published in the highly-ranked academic journal International Journal of Production Economics (volume 208, pages 17-28). The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed in 2018 on a reduction of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international shipping. The study identifies the...
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Sea-land interdependence in the global maritime network: the case of Australian port cities
PortEconomics member César Ducruet, and Justin Berli (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, Paris, France) and Mattia Bunel (Institut Géographique National, COGIT Saint-Mandé, France)- on their latest study, published at Networks and Spatial Economics latest issue, discuss main results in the light of network science, spatial science, and transport studies. Their study tackles the longstanding issue of intermodality head on. From ageomatics perspective, the authors model both maritime...
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Measuring environmental efficiency of cruise companies considering corporate social responsibility
With the importance of corporate social responsibility being increasingly recognised, PortEconomics member Grace Wang co-authored along with Xiao Yi and Kevin Li (Chung-Ang University), a study that aims to help a cruise company identify social and environmental issues that present risks and opportunities, while taking into consideration the most concerning environmental issues to the external stakeholders. A Super-slack-based measure model, combined with the Malmquist productivity index, is applied to measure environmental efficiency in...
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Maritime networks, port efficiency, and hinterland connectivity in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean has been one of the most active trading areas for millennia. Trade- and by extension connectivity- between Mediterranean riparian countries is one of the oldest and most studied topics in economic history. The Mediterranean has complex trade patterns and routes- but with key differences from the past. It is no longer an isolated world economy: it is both a trading area and a transit area linking Europe and North Africa with the rest of the world through the hub-and-spoke structure of maritime...
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OECD report on efficiency and sustainability in multimodal supply chains
Efficiency improvements are inherent to the sustainability of global supply chains. Supply chains are highly dependent on a diversity of material flows handled by numerous actors (suppliers, carriers, manufacturers, distributors, etc.) and the efficiency of these flows impacts the environmental performance of the supply chain. Yet, there is no particularly clear strategy about improving the efficiency of supply chains, notably from an environmental perspective. The debate about whether environmental efficiency is better achieved through...
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Social media marketing tools for cruise lines: increasing customer engagement through posting strategies
Social Media (SM) provide undoubted opportunities for fostering firms’ relationships with their customers, and online customer engagement (CE) has become a widespread objective when developing communication strategies for firms operating in business where customer references, word-of-mouth (WoM) and feedbacks are predictors of success, such as in the case of travel and tourism business. In this perspective, the cruise industry constitutes a valuable field for empirical investigation related to online CE, due to its...
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