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PortReport 1 | Competition and complementarity between seaports and hinterlands for distribution activities

April 16th, 2016 Featured, PortReport, PortStudies, Thematic Area

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PortEconomics celebrates the launching of PortReports, a PortEconomics series aiming to enrich business and academic insights related to the port sector. In PortReport No 1 –  authored by Jason Monios, Theo Notteboom, Gordon Wilmsmeier and Jean-Paul Rodrigue,  readers have the chance to identify types of distribution activities that ports are suitable locations for, and which of such activities are best suited to the respective hinterland. The authors back their analysis with empirical evidence derived from a unique sample: a variety of regions in Europe, North America, South America, Southern Africa and Asia the report provides a unique overview of regional differences across the world, with the proposed framework taking into account geographical, economic and logistics settings. A locational duality in port-related distribution activities is emerging. In some regions, distribution activities have moved from ports to inland locations, driven in part by ‘push factors’ such as port congestion and scarcity of land for container handling activities, or by ‘pull factors’ such as the growth of intermodal corridors, the influence of inland terminals and the changing economic geography in the hinterland. In other regions, ports retain their traditional role as centres of distribution and warehousing activity. More recently, the focus on ‘port-centric logistics’ is indicative that some regions are refocusing on ports as potential locations for large distribution centres. The result has been a growing competition, but also complementarity, between ports and inland locations concerning the location of distribution activities, driven not only by market forces but also by institutional settings and the governance relations between the actors involved.


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Jason Monios

Dr Jason Monios is Associate Professor in Maritime Logistics at Kedge Business School, Marseille, France. His research areas include intermodal transport and logistics, port system evolution, collaboration and integration in port hinterlands, port governance and policy, institutional and regulatory settings, port sustainability and climate change adaptation. He has led numerous research projects on these topics with a total budget of over €1m. He has over 70 peer-reviewed academic publications in addition to numerous research and consultancy reports, covering Europe, North and South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He has worked with national and regional transport authorities and co-authored technical reports with UNCTAD and UN-ECLAC. Jason is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and co-chair of the Intermodal Freight Transport SIG of the World Conference on Transportation Research Society (WCTRS), as well as a member of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) and the Port Economics online initiative. He currently holds a visiting position at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4916-9718

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