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A strategic appraisal of the attractiveness of seaport-based transport corridors: the southern Africa case
A strategic appraisal of the attractiveness of seaport-based transport corridors: the Southern African Case is the subject of the recent port study conducted by PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom along with Darren Fraser and was published in the 36th issue of the scholarly Journal of Transport Geography. The past decade has brought significant growth at, and competition between regional gateway ports and intermediate hub container ports in Southern Africa. Corridors are the essential link between these ports and continental...
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The waves of containerisation: shifts in global maritime transportation
PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue provides evidence of the cyclic behavior of containerization through an analysis of long, medium and short waves of container ports. His guest lecture at the USC Price Sol Prize School of Public Policy has been recorded and provides valuable information about the box. The container, like any technical innovation, has a functional (within transport chains) and geographical diffusion potential where a phase of maturity is eventually reached. Evidence from the global container port system suggests five...
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Cruise activities in med ports
PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis and Aimilia Papachristou, co-author the report "Cruise activities in MedCruise ports: Statistics 2013", that was presented in Cruise Shipping Miami 2014. This report prepared jointly with Kleopatra Arapi, forms a useful reference tool for the entire cruise industry, by providing a statistical analysis of cruise activities in the Mediterranean region and its adjoining seas for 2013 - including information on market concentration - comparing the data with the immediate previous year and presenting an...
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Port-related railway chains: an application to the port of Rotterdam
Efficient port-related transport chains are key in the competition among ports,. Many forms of coordination are needed to ensure that the railway chain operates efficiently, including the bundling of cargo, and good organization between railway companies, terminal operators and the infrastructure managers to realize an efficient use of assets. In Europe the liberalization process of the railway market in Europe, has affected port-related railway transport. While providing this efficiency is to a large extent a coordination challenge, port...
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Port-focal logistics and global supply chains
Being the arteries of the global economy, transport, logistics and supply chains continue to evolve and adapt to the new phenomena, and have together become an integrated service professional. Being the nodal points, ports will play pivotal roles. PortEconomics associate member Adolf K.Y. Ng joins Prof. John J. Liu authoring a timing book entitled "Port-Focal Logistics and Global Supply Chains" that investigates the trends and challenges that ports, logistics and supply chains have tackled in recent decades, and the appropriate way...
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Review of maritime transport 2013
The UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport, produced by the Division on Technology and Logistics, is the acknowledged United Nations source of statistics and analysis on seaborne trade, the world fleet, freight rates, port traffic, and the latest trends in the legal and regulatory environment for international maritime transport. The 2013 edition of the Review of Maritime Transport estimates global seaborne trade to have increased by 4.3 per cent, with the total reaching over 9 billion tons in 2012 for the first time ever. Driven in particular...
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Port studies in MPM: reviewing advances, discussing challenges, identifying research streams
With ports being a key component of modern tranportation system, there is a growing research interest in port economics, management and policy issues. Maritime Policy & Management (MPM), the flagship journal of maritime studies, has been a publication that advanced the knowledge and understanding of ports since its inception in 1973. With MPM celebrating its 40th anniversary, PortEconomics co-directors Theo Notteboom, Thanos Pallis and Peter de Langen, joined by PortEconomics member Aimilia Papachristou, have published a port study...
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Port performance & strategy
Port Performance and Strategy is the theme of the 8th volume of the scholarly journal Research in Transportation Business and Management. PortEconomics members Mary Brooks and Athanasios Pallis edit this special issue that contains 21 port studies presenting state of the art research on port governance, organisation and performance. Why this issue? Advancements in port governance, organization and performance have been significant over the last two decades. As Brooks and Pallis, had noted in the examination of the port literature to 2000...
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