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February 15th, 2016
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Port competition emerged as a complex and multi-faceted concept due to changes in the market environment of ports and the resulting intensification of rivalry between operators in the same port, between neighbouring ports, be-tween multi-port gateway regions and between entire port ranges. PortEconomics co-directors Theo Notteboom and Peter de Langen in their latest port study Container port competition in Europe, discuss the port competition in Europe with a main focus on container ports and terminals and they provide an in-depth...
February 1st, 2016
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Transshipment hubs are perhaps the most critical component in container shipping networks. Transshipment enables traffic consolidation and the related scale economies in ship size, rationalization of shipping routes and adjustment of ship capacity to traffic density, and expanding the number of ports covered by the shipping network. The latest study of PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue along with Asaf Ashar (National Ports and Waterways Initiative, University of New Orleans, USA) provides an assessment of the current state of...
December 31st, 2015
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PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of 2015 recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2015. As measured by Google Analytics the list of the top-5 papers on container ports: 1. Scenarios on alliance formation in container shipping Having demonstrated how strategic alliances among container shipping companies have changed in the past 20 years, PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom, explains the scenarios on alliance formation in container shipping today. 2. Beyond...
December 31st, 2015
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PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of 2015 recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2015. As measured by Google Analytics the list of the top-5 news presented at PortEconomics on cruise ports are: 1. State of the art of the cruise industry & cruise ports The OECD International Transport Forum (ITF) brought cruise and cruise ports at the centre of discussions during the 2015 ITF/OECD Summit on "Transport, Tourism and Trade", with Thanos Pallis preparing the background...
December 31st, 2015
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PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of the year recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2015. As measured by Google Analytics the list of the top-5 news (plus a video) presented at PortEconomics on port authorities strategies are: 1. 'Beyond the Landlord': Port authority strategies around the globe Are port authorities limiting their activities to the landlord functions? If not, which other strategies do they develop? And to what extend are they different in different...
December 31st, 2015
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PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of the year recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2015. As measured by Google Analytics the list of the top-5 viewpoints presented at PortEconomics in 2015 are: 1. Are mega-ships such an imposition? The OECD report on the effects on mega-ships provides valuable insights for all players in the port industry. Peter de Langen focuses on an important flaw in the report: the suggestion that mega ships impose infrastructure costs on the...
December 30th, 2015
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PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of the year recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2015. As measured by Google Analytics the list of the top-5 news presented at PortEconomics in 2015 on shipping and who it affects ports are: 1. Concession agreements and market entry in the container terminal industry When shipping lines are interested in operating container terminals, the capabilities and strategies required for obtaining a concession to operate a container terminal in...
December 11th, 2015
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Political instabilities and their consequential economic lags have to some extent misaligned the pace of institutional reforms in Southern African ports compared with ports in the developed world. Some ports in this region (South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Mauritius and Madagascar) have however, over the last 10 to15 years begun to follow the port reform trend, and as such have undergone various degrees of institutional reform. The latest port study of PortEconomisc co-director Theo Notteboom along with PortEconomics associate member Darren...
December 2nd, 2015
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Substantial research posits that institutions do matter in port development, resulting in path-dependent reform process. However, issues remain unaddressed, notably on how and why institutions matter during such process under diversified developmental phases and geographical settings. This latest port study of PortEconomics associate member Adolf Ng, along with Jose Tongzon (Asia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University, Korea) and Eva Shou (Hongkong International Terminals) investigates, based on the experience of two major ports in...
November 30th, 2015
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The funding options available to South African container ports given their respective institutional position and port capacity needs are at the centre of the port study developed by PortEconomics co-director Τheo Notteboom and PortEconomics associate member Darren Fraser latest port study. The study under the title: The port development in Sub-Saharan Africa: competitive forces, port reform and investment challenge, is included as a chapter in the book Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy, Volume 2: Emerging...
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