Posts tagged with "container"

Revolutionisation of how ports operate Containers

Revolutionisation of how ports operate

By Giovanni Prati, CNN How this technology could shake up logistics at major ports Dubai (CNN) In Dubai's Jebel Ali port, a new technology is being tested that aims to speed up, improve and automate the way shipping containers are stored, moved and shipped. Typically, at major ports, shipping containers awaiting transport are...
Convergence and growth traps in container ports Containers

Convergence and growth traps in container ports

PortEconomics members Pierre Cariou and Jason Monios, along with their colleagues Gabriel Figueiredo de Oliveira, and Alexandra Schaffar (LEAD, University of Toulon, France) tested the existence of a middle-rank growth trap in the container port market. Their portstudy- published in the Transport Policy (Volume 110)- adopts an...
PortGraphic: top15 European container ports in Q1 2020 Containers

PortGraphic: top15 European container ports in Q1 2020

By Theo Notteboom Impact of COVID-19 on European ports only started to be strongly visible in March 2020. The table shows the container throughput growth for Q1 2020 in the top 15 containers ports in Europe. While the Coronavirus emerged in China in December 2019, its impact on European ports only started to be strongly visible in...
Latin American and Caribbean ports in face of COVID-19 Containers

Latin American and Caribbean ports in face of COVID-19

In the last few months, the world has witnessed and continues to witness a drastic change in our daily lives, which has also caused a great impact on business, trade, and shipping. The outbreak of a pandemic changed all economic and trade expectations for 2020. From a forecast of 3.6% growth in container trade worldwide in the last...
Top 15 container ports in Europe in 2019: TEU volumes and growth rates Containers

Top 15 container ports in Europe in 2019: TEU volumes and growth rates

By Theo Notteboom The cargo volume handled remains a key performance indicator for ports. While also other indicators related to logistics performance, sustainability, innovation and economic impact are gaining ground, it remains relevant to observe how cargo volumes have evolved over time. The table shows the top 15 container...
The Analyst: a rethink on container storage Containers

The Analyst: a rethink on container storage

By Peter de Langen The recent announcement of a new container storage system, which according to the developers can triple terminal capacity, is interesting news. Container storage methods have changed little, if at all, over the last decades. But now a German industrial engineering group — an ‘outsider’ with no prior...
Calls, connectivity, liners and alliances at Thessaloniki container port Containers

Calls, connectivity, liners and alliances at Thessaloniki container port

by George Vaggelas & Thanos Pallis Thessaloniki stands as the second biggest container port in Greece and a peripheral port aiming to serve the Balkans and further regions in Southeast Europe. It is almost a year since the privatization of the Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A., via the selling of the majority of the shares of the...
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