Thematic Area

May 9th, 2014
Thematic Area

The factors underlying foreign entry strategies of terminal operators in container ports is the theme of a port study by PortEconomics  member Francesco Parola, along with Giovanni Satta (University of Genoa) and Simone Caschili (University College London)to appear in a forthcoming issue of the scholarly journal Maritime Policy and Management. Over the last few years, the progressive scarcity of land for greenfield projects in ports and the enormous financial resources required to realize new terminal facilities have induced international...
May 1st, 2014
Thematic Area

The preliminary program of the forthcoming meeting of the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN), that will take place on July 15, 2014, in Norfolk, US. suggests a most interesting workshop to advance further port studies around the globe. The Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) is an informal network of maritime economists interested in issues of port policy. Founded and chaired by Dr. Mary R. Brooks, and PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis, it was established at the International Association of Maritime Economists 2001 meeting...
April 30th, 2014
Thematic Area

Which issues need to be considered in order to modernise container port systems and respond to the growth of containerised maritime trade and to the development needs of their hinterland economies? How to best mobilise private investments and best proceed to port expansions with long-life spans and a structural influence on the local and national economy? These questions are addressed in the OECD report "Port Investment and Container Shipping Markets" that is co-authored by PortEconomic co-director Thanos Pallis, PortEconomics assocaite...
April 27th, 2014
Thematic Area

Essays on the relationship between terminal scale and port competition is the theme of the doctoral thesis that was concluded by PortEconomics member Vicky Kaselimi. The research presented in this work is primarily concerned with the scale of container terminals and its ensuing relation with inter- and intra-port competition. It supports the notion that good social science is also problem driven and not only methodology driven. It proceeds to this aim by implementing modelling application and empirical testing where possible. The...
April 16th, 2014
Thematic Area

PortEconomics member Francesco Parola, along with PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom, PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Giovanni Satta (Department of Economics, University of Genoa) have published a port study in the 33rd issue of the scholarly Journal of the Transport Geography. The study provides an analysis of factors underlying foreign entry strategies of terminal operators in container ports. Port reforms around the world have opened regional container port terminal markets. The emergence of a wide array of...
April 7th, 2014
Thematic Area

Only 20 years ago the Chinese port system was still in its infancy stage. Hong Kong acted as the only container gateway to China. Since the second half of the 1990s, throughput at Chinese mainland ports started to accelerate. In recent years, shipping lines have been dedicating higher capacities and deploying larger vessels to cope with the increasing Chinese imports and exports. Chinese port activity is mainly concentrated in three regions: the Pearl River Delta (PRD), the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and the Bohai Sea Economic Rim (BER). The...
March 30th, 2014
Thematic Area

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...
March 24th, 2014
Thematic Area

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...
March 23rd, 2014
Thematic Area

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...
February 7th, 2014
Thematic Area

There is a wide range of studies on port efficiency but curiously enough, these studies have never focused on turnaround times in ports, despite this being considered as a key indicator of efficiency. More often we see studies in operations research about queuing models of vessels in relation to port entrance channels and berth allocation and productivity, but there is a drastic lack of systematic reporting and analyses of ship turnaround times. In an article published in Port Technolgy International , PortEconomics associate...
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