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Characteristics & role of European ports in a new world
The characteristics and the role of the European ports in a new world was titled the presenation delivered by PortEconomics member Theo Notteboom during the 16th ESPO Annual conference held in 23-24 May, in Livorno, Italy. Theo participated in the "New Ports" session, along with Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (President of the World Maritime University) moderated by Matej Zakonjsek (Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc). Theo, in his presentation described the new world and set a question "do we need port authorities?" Follow the...
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PortVideo: top-20 cruise ports in the Med, 2000-2018
Celebrating the 2019 edition of Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum #PSTF2019, the major cruise event in East Med, PortEconomics.eu presents a PortVideo visualising the top20 cruise ports in the Med throughtout the period 2000-2018. The PortVideo was prepared by PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis, Aimilia Papachristou and George Vaggelas....
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PortVideo: evolution of container volumes in European ports, 1985-2018
An animated portgraphic created by PortEconomics member and co-director Theo Notteboom shows the evolution of container volumes in European ports between 1985 and 2018.
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PortGraphic: are the Med ports breaking the hegemony of the top 4 north-European container ports?
By Theo Notteboom The top 4 European container ports have remained unchanged since the start of containerization in Europe in the late 1960s: the Dutch port of Rotterdam, the Belgian port of Antwerp and the German ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven have always occupied the top spots in TEU terms in the European container port system. These four ports are all located in the so-called Hamburg-Le Havre range in northwest Europe. Hamburg for a long time ranked second in Europe, but since the crisis year 2009 Antwerp successfully challenged...
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The Cartagena dialogue on Cruise Ports & Cities 2020
For any updates please visit #CruiseDialogue2020 website The Cartagena dialogue: Preparing Ports, Cities & Destinations for the next day of cruising An international academic-industry dialogue on how best to accommodate the seemingly unstoppable growth of cruise activities Location: Cartagena, Colombia 19 -21 February 2020 First call for papers The Cartagena dialogue on Cruise, Ports and Cities 2020 is an international Conference, organized by the Universidad de los Andes, in collaboration with the University of the Aegean,...
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Report on port activity of Latin America and the Caribbean 2018
Container throughput in ports of Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 7.7% in 2018 in comparison with the previous year, according to Port Activity Report of Latin America and the Caribbean 2018 by ECLAC. This analysis is based on the performance of a sampling of 31 countries and 118 ports and port areas in the region. According to the data of the sampling compiled by ECLAC, in 2018 the East Coast of South America (ECSA) recorded a 12% increase in the activity of ports and port areas, measured in terms of volume. Meanwhile,...
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The unproductive and induced mobility of empty container repositioning in peripheral regions
The movement of goods between locations of production and consumption rely on a complex global logistics system that is underpinned by immobile freight infrastructure and particularly transfer points such as ports, which are nevertheless constituted by an institutional mobility of governance, regulation and investment that has changed a great deal in the last few decades. Therefore, the freight system, when considered from a mobilities perspective, exhibits several of the characteristic features identified in the seminal early papers on the...
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PortGraphic: the global container terminals operators in top 20 European ports
By Theo Notteboom Interesting times in the container terminal business in Europe. PSA International together with Polish sovereign wealth fund PFR and IFM Investors have agreed a deal with Macquarie to buy DCT Gdansk, the number 15 container port in Europe. Also, MSC has plans to strengthen its ownership position in Medcenter Container Terminal (Gioia Tauro). In the past two years, there has been quite some activity in the terminal industry. For example, Cosco Shipping Ports got involved in Zeebrugge (Belgium) and Noatum Port holdings...
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