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Determinants of container ports throughput convergence
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...
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Port industry performance management: a mesolevel gap in literature & practice
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...
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Incentives in cruise terminal concession contracts
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...
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Energy consumption in LAC container terminals
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...
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Clique survival in the port industry network: a longitudinal perspective
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...
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PortEconomics members shape IAME2014
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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Improving port effectiveness through determinance/ performance gap analysis
PortEconomics associate member Prof. Mary Brooks together with Prof. Tony Schellinck (Dalhousie University) published a port study entitled 'Improving port effectiveness through determinance/performance gap analysis' in the scientific journal Maritime Policy and Management, Volume 41, Issue 4. Port managers, governments, and stakeholders bring different perspectives to the challenges of port management. One of the greatest of these challenges is identifying and prioritizing investments to take advantage of the opportunities for future...
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The port hinterland impact (PHI) matrix
PortEconomics member Michael Dooms (Department of Business, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), along with PortEconomics associate members Elvira Haezendonck (Department of Business, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Department of Management, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Alain Verbeke (Department of Business, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Haskayne School of Business, University of...
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