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Concession agreements and market entry in the container terminal industry
The capabilities and strategies required for obtaining a concession to operate a container terminal in a seaport is the theme of the study conducted by the three PortEconomics co-directors, Thanos Pallis, Theo Notteboom and Peter de Langen, and is now part of a new volume "Port Management", just published by Palgrave. The volume is edited by Prof Hercules Haralambides (Erasmus University and Port of Brindisi), and brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave's journal, Maritime Economics and Logistics. It is a...
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The production of capitalist ‘‘smooth’’ space in global port operations
New developments in a post-Fordist economic environment have changed the source of port competitiveness from economies of scale based on basic production factors (capital, land, labour) to economies of scope based on advanced production (service) factors. The institutional setting in which ports are now embedded requires methods of analysis that go beyond those traditionally applied in transport geography, but port geography research has not embraced critical, radical or relational geographies. Thus, questions relating to the new...
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OECD report on the state of the art of the cruise industry & cruise ports
The OECD International Transport Forum (ITF) brings cruise and cruise ports at the centre of discussions during the 2015 ITF/OECD Summit on "Transport, Tourism and Trade", with PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis preparing the background discussion Paper to inform the high-level discussions that took place during the summit. Thanos contributes with a report covering the state of the art and growth potential of cruise shipping (Chapter 1), the characteristics, performance and competition of modern cruise ports (Chapter 2), and the...
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Waste reception facilities in cruise ports: the case of the Med
With cruise activities in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas increasing, the cruise world takes initiatives to handle the produced externalities, including the wastes produced on cruise ships. In recent times, cruise lines and ports have put a lot of efforts into reducing, selecting and managing generated wastes implementing the requirements of the international regulatory framework (MARPOL 73/78) as well as those imposed by the European legislation. Thanos Pallis and Aimilia Papachristou in their latest port study that was presented at...
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Beyond productivity: understanding container port performance
Port users perceptions of their experience in a given port, do matter and port performance measurement needs to take this into account argue Thanos Pallis and George Vaggelas in their latest port study that was presented at the 5th International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management & Economics (SOME 2015) held in Athens, Greece, 28-29 May 2015. The port industry is experiencing an ongoing transformation due to changes in its internal and external envi-ronment. Nowadays the industry is characterized by fierce competition of...
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A two-phase model for dry port location with an application to the port of Dalian in China
A two-phase framework on the location of dry ports is presented at the new port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom along with Dalian Maritime University (DMU) colleagues Zheng Chang and Jin Lu published in Transportation Planning & Technology. The study aims to provide guidance for an optimal and reasonable dry port layout for the port of Dalian. which solves the selection of candidate inland cities and optimal dry port location choice respectively. Fuzzy C Means Clustering (FCM) is applied to select alternative cities...
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Strategic evaluation of the belgian port sector and accompanying services
PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom and Indra Vonck (University of Antwerp) published a study commissioned by ING Bank on the strategic evaluation of the Belgian port sector and accompanying services. The goal of this study is twofold. Next to analysing the added value based of a classical economic analysis the study defines and measures the strategic value of the Belgian port network with all its accompanying services. Strategic value is defined as: "The economic value of the ports and the logistical network plus the added value created...
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Economic impact of the port of Antwerp on the hinterland
PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom published a study commissioned by the Province of Antwerp on the employment and value added impact of the port of Antwerp on the municipalities in the Province of Antwerp and part of the Province of East Flanders in Belgium. The aim of the study was to analyse how much employment and value added in these municipalities is linked to the port. Also, the study presented figures on the municipal taxes linked to the employment effects of the port. The results show that in some villages and small cities close...
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