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Dealing with supply chain visibility
Visibility perspectives are among the top priorities for supply chains; a core issue towards more efficient operation and cooperation among the supply chain players, with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) playing a crucial role towards this direction. Supply chain players cooperation relies heavily in ICT integration problems that still exist. For many ports supply chain visibility is an issue to be tackled in order to increase their attractiveness as nodes in supply chains. PortEconomics member George Vaggelas - along with...
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Uncertainty and volatility in shipping and ports
PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom (Dalian Maritime University, China) and associate member Jasmine Siu Lee Lam (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) acted as guest editors of a brand new Special Issue of the flagship journal Maritime Policy and Management (MPM) on the theme "Dealing with uncertainty and volatility in shipping and ports". The Special Issue covers the December issue of MPM (vol. 41, no. 7). The Special Issue is dedicated to the ways shipping freight markets, and port operators are dealing or can deal with market...
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Kai Tak cruise terminal in Hong Kong: site selection process
A Study on the site selection process of the Kai Tak cruise terminal in Hong Kong is the latest study of PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis, and PortEconomics associate member Adolf Ng along with Yui-yip Lau (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Ka-chai Tam (Hong Kong Baptist University) presented during the the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists - IAME 2014, that was held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. The stydy undertakes a historical review study on the process of site selection of Hong...
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Maritime security in Canada
The history of transportation security regulations in Canada, is the theme of the study 'Maritime Security in Canada' developed by PortEconomics associate member Mary Brooks and published in the form of a chaptet of the book Maritime Transport Security. The work makes particular note of the influence of American security policy on Canada's maritime security situation. Maritime security issues in Canada cannot be isolated from those of the United States for historical reasons going back to the time of Fortress North America during World War...
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Black Sea: an emerging multi-port gateway region
The Black Sea ports represent an interesting case in view of the types, governance models and environment in which they operate and develop. The majority of Black Sea ports (Ukrainian, Russian, and Georgian) experienced tremendous economic and institutional changes in the last 20 years, from being Soviet centralized ports benefiting from public shelter policies to ports belonging to different autonomous countries and facing a new market economic reality based on efficiency and the effects of demand/supply (im)balance. The other Black Sea...
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Strategic reorientation of port actors: insights from port of Rotterdam & port of Barcelona
The changes in the strategic orientation of port authorities and terminal operators towards the hinterland network in the Ports of Rotterdam and Barcelona are being explored in the study conducted by PortEconomics associate member Larissa van der Lugt, along with Suzana B. Rodrigues (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Roy van den Berg (Port of Rotterdam Authority). Their study, titled "Co-evolution of the strategic reorientation of port actors: insights from the Port of Rotterdam and the Port of Barcelona" is published in the last issue of...
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Towards an inland terminal centred value proposition in container transport?
The two main value propositions in international container transport are 'port-to-port' services and door-to-door services. In port-port services, buyers 'just' purchase maritime transport from a shipping line. Door-to-door services comprise of the total transport chain and include land based transport. Carriers as well as forwarders offer these door-to-door services. The latest study Towards an inland terminal centred value proposition in container transport? of PortEconomics co-director Peter De Langen and Roy van den Berg (Port of...
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Port infrastructure PPP partnerships: critical success factors in german, dutch and belgian seaports
Public-private partnerships for the provision of port infrastructure: stakeholder analysis of critical success factors in German, Dutch and Belgian seaports is the new study of Porteconomics member Michael Dooms and PortEconomics associate member Elvira Haezendonc, along with Geoffrey Aerts and Thies Grage that presented during the the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists - IAME 2014, that was held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Worldwide, port infrastructure projects increasingly use forms of...
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