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PortEconomics members @ IAME2016 Conference
The annual conference of the International Association of PortΕconomics – IAME 2016, that was held 23-26 August in Hamburg, Germany provided to the PortEconomics team the opportunity to present the port research that they conducted over the last year. In total, PortEconomics members presented 16 different port or port related studies that progressed over the course of the last months, shaping research developments in the emerging research field of port economics, policy and management, as well as in port related studies. Over the...
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Port sustainability and the ocean's carrier network problem
Port Sustainability and Ocean’s Carrier Network Problem (OCNP): PortEconomics member Pierre Cariou along with Lucie Sislian and Anicia Jaegler (Kedge Business School) review the literature of these interrelated concepts in their latest port study. The past literature did not establish a clear relationship between these two concepts, as the sustainability concept is a relatively recent approach in the maritime literature, and still a gap exists in this field. This study review the port sustainability concept and then relate it to the...
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Constanza port: globalisation in progress
Seagoing and river maritime transportation systems of Romania stand as inextricable forces in driving and serving the changing structures of the Romanian economy in the post-1989 era. The transport sector itself has also been subject to major reforms. All different modes including the state owned maritime service providers have been reorganised in order to meet the doctrines of entrepreneurship development and market liberalisation that became the dominant form of the economy. The port of Constantza, and the alteration of its governance...
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Port connectivity indices: an application to European RoRo shipping
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the development of connectivity indicators for ports. For short sea shipping, especially in Europe, Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) shipping is almost equally important as container shipping. In contrast with container shipping, RoRo shipments are primarily direct, thus the measurement of its connectivity requires a different methodology. Peter de Langen, PortEconomics co-director, along with Maximiliano Udenio (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Jan C. Fransoo (Eindhoven...
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Off-peak truck deliveries at terminals: the 'Good Night' program in Israel
Avoiding truck congestion and peaks in landside activity is one of the challenges to container terminal managers. The spreading of truck arrivals at terminals can be facilitated by widening the opening hours of terminals at the landside. Israel’s Ministry of Transport has instituted the “Good Night Program”, involving monetary incentives for importers and exporters who deliver containers to ports at night. The latest port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom, along with David J. Bentolila (Zefat Academic College,...
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Mega vessels: the adaptive capacity of upstream ports Antwerp and Hamburg
Port system development is a key theme in port geography literature. Recent decades have brought a rise in container terminal development at estuarine, coastal and offshore port locations, in part driven by scale increases in vessel size. The latest port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom examines how container ports located upstream on rivers use processes of adaptive capacity building in an attempt to remain competitive in port systems. Theo links the development path of upstream seaports to a range of economic,...
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Do we need to assess service delivery at Canadian ports?
Recent research on port service delivery for the American Association of Port Authorities aimed at developing a standard instrument (SEAPORT–Seaport Effectiveness Assessment for PORT managers) that can accurately and reliably measure how well ports deliver services to their users. The study population was customers and users of container ports in the U.S. and Canada—cargo owners, freight forwarders, shipping lines and supply chain partners at the port. Designed as a standalone measurement tool, results from the SEAPORT instrument can be...
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Marketing strategies of Port Authorities
The evolution of clusters in modern ports, and the interrelated wave of port devolution in the 1990s, led to a redefinition of the role of each actor involved, including that of port authorities (PAs). The latter have been transformed to hybrid organisations, mostly disassociated from operational activities and port services provision, yet maintaining a key role as the managing bodies advancing the prospects of the port they manage and these of the respective clusters. Marketing is among the functions working towards this end. PortEconomics...
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