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A game theory application of a cruise value chain – the case of China
Regardless of the facts showing a booming Chinese cruise market, cruise operations in China are very different from the current practices of the two major cruise markets – the US and the Mediterranean Sea. The recent port-study of PortEconomics member Grace Wang, co-authored with Qingcheng Zeng, Chenrui Qu and Joan Mileski (Texas A&M University at Galveston, USA) aims to quantify pricing strategies and possible incentive mechanisms of cruise operations in China. Using optimization in economic-based game theory, the complexity of...
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The impact of management practices use on brazilian port authorities’ performance
The relation between management practices and the performance of Brazilian port authorities is the latest port study of PortEconomics members Peter De Langen, Jonas Mendes Constante and Larissa van der Lugt along with Guilherme Bergmann Borges Vieira, Rogério João Lunkes. The authors developed a survey-based evaluation tool of the quality of management practices . In addition, a set of operational and financial performance indicators of such port authorities and their ports was calculated. The differences in operational and financial...
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Port co-operation: types, drivers and impediments
The port industry has witnessed a multiplication of port co-operation and integration schemes in recent years partly driven by governance reforms, public policy, political forces and market pressures. PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom, Francesco Parola and Geraldine Knatz co-edit a themed volume in the academic journal Research in Transportation Management and Business, including some major contributions on port co-operation. The edited volume contains a guest editorial and 13 full papers specifically focusing on port co-operation...
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Port authorities willingness to cooperate: effects of objective orientation & service differentiation
Τhe effects of the objective orientation of port authorities and the level of service differentiation on the capacity, service price, profits and welfare among competing or cooperating ports are analysed in the latest port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom co-authored with Han Cui (University of Antwerp). Theo and Han examined feasible combinations of these two factors (private objective level and service differentiation) to promote port co-operation. They applied the model starting from a mixed duopoly where a landlord...
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GREPORT2018: Report on greek ports
GREPORT2018, the second edition of the bi-annual Report on Greek Ports, has been produced by PortEconomics members George Vaggelas and Thanos Pallis, and published by Ports & Shipping Advisory (P&SA). The report covers all the developments in the Greek Port System over the last years, including a detailed analysis of the througput and financial evolution of the major Greek ports, and terminal operators in Greece. In particular the four Section of the report are: Section I presents the key developments in the national and...
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Marketing of port authorities: a novel conceptualisation
Port authorities have transformed to hybrid organizations mostly disassociated from operational activities and port services provision. Still, they maintain a key role as managing bodies advancing the prospects of respective port and associate clusters. Marketing is among the functions working towards this end. In a new port study, PortEconomics members Francesco Parola and Thanos Pallis - joined by Marcello Risitano and Marco Ferretti - develop an innovative conceptualization of the marketing strategies developed by Port Authorities...
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Environmental differentiated port pricing: the case of the Hamburg-Le Havre range
Contested industries have fallen under increased scrutiny of the public eye when it comes to their environmental performance. In particular the transport industry is still considered as a large polluter. Therefore, stakeholders put pressure on the industry to work on their environmental footprint. Shippers assess whether their supply chain as a whole can be increasingly ‘greened’, given increasing environmental awareness from both customers (in B2B settings) and consumers (in B2C settings). Ports, as important nodes in transport...
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Port cooperation in the North Adriatic ports
Recent trends in port development show that ports are making increasing efforts to forge mutually beneficial cooperation strategies, particularly ports sharing a common hinterland. PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen co-authored with Kristijan Stamatović and Aleš Groznik (University of Ljubljana) an analysis of the North Adriatic ports (Koper, Rijeka, Trieste and Venice) with a focus on two related themes. First, the complementarity of the North Adriatic (NA) ports in the container market is analysed based on port vessel service...
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