PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of 2016 recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2016.
Our most popular papers on Cruise ports in 2016 were:
1. 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. PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis, under his capacity as a Secretary General of ΜedCruise, along with Kleopatra Arapi published a related article on the 2015 trends of cruise statistics in MedCruise ports. [Link]
2. Cruise ports and sustainability: contemporary issues
The aspirations of the cruise companies and how they are shapping the challenges that cruise ports are facing today was the key issue addressed by PortEconomics member George Vaggelas during the presentation titled “Cruise ports and sustainability – Contemporary issues”. [Link]
3. Cruising for better port pricing
Cruises are increasingly relevant in port development so taking a look at pricing can be insightful, writes PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen. In Spain, dues charged by the port authority for cruise ships, expressed per passenger, vary from about €1 to about €6, depending on the port and ship capacity. These costs seem below the costs for the infrastructure and facilities. As a comparison, average ‘airside’ revenues of the Spanish airport company (AENA) are more than €9 per passenger. [Link]
4. Cruise ports expand activities caring about performance, economic impact and users satisfaction
PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis comments on Mediterranean cruise port authorities caring about performance, measuringeconomic impact and sharing users’ satisfaction – in a viewpoint that has been originally published at the 49th issue of International Cruise and Ferry Review. [Link]
5. Unveiling the critical elements for attracting homeporting
A new port study by PortEconomics member George Vaggelas, co-authored by Spyros Niavis (University of Thessaly), defines the parameters and elements that affect the potential of a cruise port to become a homeport. The study, published in the third issue of first volume of the scholarly journal Maritime Business Review, incorporates an ordinal regression model linking the likelihood of ports to attract homeport traffic with seven explanatory variables. The model has been applied in a sample of 47 Mediterranean cruise ports and the results unveil which factors that are of crucial importance for the attractiveness of a cruise homeport. [Link]
