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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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Climate change: a challenge for global seaports
"A note on climate change adaptation for seaports: A challenge for global ports, a challenge for global society". This is the title of the new study of PortEconomics associate member Adolf Ng, together with Austin H. Becker, Michele Acciaro, Regina Asariotis, Edgard Cabrera, Laurence Cretegny, Philippe Crist, Miguel Esteban, Andrew Mather, Steve Messner, Susumu Naruse, Stefan Rahmstorf, Michael Savonis, Dong-Wook Song, Vladimir Stenek and Adonis Velegrakis that is published in the 4th issue of 120 Volume Climatic Change Journal. With...
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SMPs in multi-port gateway regions: the case study of northeast of China
"Peripheral challenge by Small and Medium Sized Ports (SMPs) in Multi-Port Gateway Regions: the case study of northeast of China" is the theme of the new study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom, ITMMA-University of Antwerp together with Lin Feng, Dalian Maritime University, that is published in the 20th Special Issue of the Polish Maritime Research Journal. The study focuses on the role of small and medium-sized ports (SMPs) in enhancing the competitiveness and logistics performance of multi-port gateway regions and associated...
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Short sea shipping in Europe: issues, policies and challenges
PortEconomics associate member Adolf Ng, together with Sergi Sauri and Mateu Turro, recently published their study on "Short Sea Shipping in Europe: Issues, Policies and Challenges" in a book, entitled: Regulating Transport in Europe (edited by Matthias Finger and Torben Holvad, Edward Elgar). In this study, the authors discuss the major issues affecting short sea shipping (SSS) development in Europe focusing on the European Union's (EU) regulations and initiatives. Apart from an overview of SSS in Europe, it also analyses the most current EU...
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