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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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Responsible cruising and its economic impacts
The US federal budgetary funds for construction and maintenance of a port are often linked to factors such as transportation cost saving and total tonnage, but seldom to the number of passenger served. In light of the popularity of passenger cruise ships, it is essential for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to explore and incorporate cruise ports in the scope of regional economic study so a standardized and objective assessment can be provided. However, while greater economic impacts are used for marketing purposes, the results...
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Impact of the Carat canal on the evolution of hub ports under China’s belt and road initiative
Under China’s Belt and Road (B&R) initiative, Carat Canal, a potential new channel of the Century Maritime Silk Road, will have a great impact on the shipping networks and the evolution of hub ports. A modified gravity prediction model with entropy maximizing principle is developed to calculate the changes in transshipment traffic. Taking account both customer preferences and spatial interaction, numerical experiments show that the opening of the Carat Canal shifts traffic volumes from the Malacca Strait, influences transshipment market...
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Shipping strategies: Global liner alliances in the port of Piraeus
How the strategic planning of a liner alliance affects the development prospects of a container port? How the relations inside the alliance are reflected on port selection? Shipping strategies and the rise of global liner alliances is the subject of PortEconomics member George Vaggelas' most recent port study. George has identified the linkages between an alliance and the ownership structure of a container port and the port's importance for the global trade, in order to better understand the evolvement of alliances strategies. His...
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