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GREPORT2016: Report on Greek ports
With total throughput 6.36 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo, 3.98 million TEUs, 28.23 million coastal passengers and 2.07 cruise passengers in 2014, Greek ports are important actors in local, national and regional level. In 2014, their turnover exceeded the €326 million. GREPORT 2016, the Report on Greek Ports by PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis and George Vaggelas is the first comprehensive record and analysis of the developments of the Greek port industry over the last decade. The port study, published by Port &...
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PortReports: a new PortEconomics Discussion Reports series enriches business and academic insights related to the port sector
PortEconomics is launching PortReports, a new PortEconomics Discussion Reports series aiming to enrich business and academic insights related to the port sector and to support policy-making by port profession. PortReports are freely distributed to visitors of our initiative, who simply have to freely login. Read more about the first PortReport, which has been collectively prepared by four PortEconomics members: Theo Notteboom, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier. The PortReport identifies the type of...
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Tapping into growth potential
COMMENT: A quick way to get an understanding of the development potential of the ports industry in a country is to look at the throughput per capita, writes Peter de Langen. Eurostat publishes such data and the ‘usual suspects’ score highly. The Netherlands handles about 33 tons per year per capita and Belgium about 20, compared with the EU average of 7.3. However, Norway has the highest ratio - over 40 ton per capita - due to substantial import and export flows of liquid and dry bulk. Naturally, some countries have volume/capita...
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Mediterranean cruise ports: traffic growth continues
A 5,62% increase of passenger movements comparing to 2014 was registered in Mediterranean cruise ports in 2015. The variation of cruise passenger movements in the second biggest cruise region of the world is positive when one relates the numbers with the one that had taken place at the beginning of the decade. In 2015 cruise ports in the Med and its adjoining seas hosted 10,7% more passenger movements than in 2010. MedCruise the association cruise ports in the Med and its adjoining seas revealed that a total of 27.206.023 cruise...
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Climate change and adaptation planning for ports: The need for a new paradigm?
Climate change is arguably an irreversible process and could lead to catastrophic climate change-related risk posed to human lives and activities. Hence, taking effective port adaptation measures to climate change is not a choice but necessity nowadays. PortEconomics associate member Adolf Ng delivered a seminar presentation at the Sauder School of Business of the University of British Columbia (UBC) on Climate Change and Adaptation Planning for Ports: The Need for a New Paradigm? Adolf argued on the decision-making process to be...
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Port & the city: ports as engines of growth
How can ports change a city? And what can a city do to enhance this? PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis took active part at the one-day conference 'Piraeus: Relations between the Port and the City', discussed organised in Piraeus, Greece by the Univerisy of Piraeus. Thanos joined the Greek Minister for Shipping and Island Policy, the Mayor of the City of Piraeus, and Stavros Hatzakos, General Manager of the Port of Piraeus, discussing the prospects and impact of changing container and cruise activities on city development,...
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IAME 2016: call for papers
IAME 2016 will be held in Hamburg on the 23rd-26th of August 2016. The conference, for the first time in Germany, will be co-organised by the Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) and the Kühne Logistics University (KLU) with the support of the University of Hamburg (UHH), the Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH), and the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services (CML). All institutions involved are united by the desire to show the beauty of Hamburg to the world and contribute to the reputation of the metropolis on...
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What's your port business models?
By Jonas Constante The business model described the rationale of how organisation creates, delivers and capture value. When developing the business model ports need to consider both the operations and the environment in which a company exists or will operate. PortEconomics associate member Jonas Mendes Constante express his opinion on port business models at the latest issue (September 2015) of Port Strategy. Read Jonas' article @ PortEconomics.eu....
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