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September 10th, 2014
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A Port Authority (PA) constitutes an interesting example of a “hybrid organization”, where the boundary between private and public interests is blurred. Applying stakeholder management principles to the port domain might help better port strategy and management. PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom and PortEconomics member Francesco Parola, along with Giovanni Satta (University of Genoa) and Lara Penco (University of Genoa) presented their latest research on Disclosure as a to ol in Stakeholder Relations Management: A longitudinal...
September 2nd, 2014
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What is a Container Terminal? PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis discusses the basic concept, and reviews the operating principles, including the need for integration in supply chains, and the key structures of entry in the container terminal market, in a contribution to the Sage Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Policy. Viewing transportation through the lens of current social, economic, and policy aspects, the Encyclopedia is a four-volume reference work that explores the topic of transportation across multiple...
August 26th, 2014
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Very few studies focus on the impact of competition on port efficiency. However, it can be assumed that a port in a monopolistic situation is subject to less pressure from customers and might be less efficient. Conversely, a port subject to high competition may be forced to overinvest in order to provide a higher quality of service to customers. The recent study of PortEconomics member Pierre Cariou, along with Gabriel Figueiredo de Oliveira (University of Toulon, LEAD, Université du Sud Toulon-Var, Faculté de Sciences Economiques et de...
August 19th, 2014
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Porteconomics member Francesco Parola, along with Giovanni Satta (Department of Economics and Management, University of Genoa), Lara Penco and Luca Persico (Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa) presented their latest research on "Destination satisfaction as a predictor of cruiser expenditures and behavioural intensions" during the the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists - IAME 2014, that was held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Along with economic monetary value, cruise...
August 7th, 2014
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PortEconomics member Thomas Vitsounis (National ICT Australia), along with Persa Paflioti and Ioannis Tsamourgelis (Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport, University of the Aegean) published their latest study at the academic journal International Journal of Transport Economics. The recent economic recession of 2009 had a significant 'knock-on' effect on container shipping causing a remarkable decline of TEU's handled in seaports on a world scale. This is primarily attributed to the slump in the global economy. The fortunes of the...
August 5th, 2014
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What has the European port industry done for monitoring its performance the last decade? PortEconomics member Michael Dooms together with Mychal Langenus (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) presented their latest study titled 'Port Industry Performance Management: a mesolevel gap in literature and practice?' during the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists - IAME 2014, that was held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Over the past few decades, academic literature has been focusing increasingly on performance...
July 30th, 2014
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Concession contracts are widely used to structure the relationship between public managing bodies of ports who own the land and terminal operators who are granted the right to exploit the land for an agreed period of time. Academic literature primarily discusses concession contracts related to cargo terminals. However, common arrangements in concession contracts for cargo handling services may or may not work in a cruise setting. PortEconomics co-directors Theo Notteboom and Thanos Pallis, together with Grace Wang (Department of Maritime...
July 28th, 2014
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PortEconomics associate member Gordon Wilmsmeier (UNECLAC, Chile) along with Ann-Kathrin Zotz (UNECLAC, Chile), Jens Froese (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany) and Andreas Meyer (Independent Consultant) presented their latest research on "Social and instrumental antecedents of clique survival in the port industry network: A longitudinal perspective" during the the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists - IAME 2014, that was held in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Τhe study presents a detailed comparative...
July 22nd, 2014
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PortEconomics associate member Francesco Parola (Department of Business Studies, University of Naples “Parthenope”), along with Giovanni Satta (Department of Economics and Management, University of Genoa) and Simone Caschili (UCL QASER Lab & Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London) presented their latest research on "Social and instrumental antecedents of clique survival in the port industry network: A longitudinal perspective" during the the annual conference of the International Association of Maritime...
July 2nd, 2014
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The annual conference of the International Association of PortΕconomics - IAME 2014, that was held 15-18 July in Norfolk, Virginia provided to the PortEconomics team the opportunity to present the port research that they conducted over the last year. In total, PortEconomics members presented 25 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 next...
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