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IPOs in ports: the determinants of the long-term aftermarket performance

Financial markets, traditionally, have been a secondary source of funds for the port industry, compared with alternative financial resources such as retained earnings, governmental support and corporate bank loans (Stopford, 2009). Nonetheless, the amount of money required for upgrading extant infrastructures, developing mega-projects...

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Italy reframes its port governance

By Francesco Parola After 22 years from the introduction of the landlord system (1994 Port Reform), the Italian Government approved a new reform law that is going to further reshape the organization of the whole port architecture at national level. The current 24 Port Authorities (PAs), together with other 33 minor ports, are...

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Marketing strategies of Port Authorities

The evolution of clusters in modern ports, and the interrelated wave of port devolution in the 1990s, led to a redefinition of the role of each actor involved, including that of port authorities (PAs). The latter have been transformed to hybrid organisations, mostly disassociated from operational activities and port services provision,...

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Container port investment: the inexorable rise of financial players

Since the early-2000s, given the increasing profitability of the container port business, a number of financial investors were stimulated to both reach new market segments and enter the industry as investors. As additional financial resources have been increasingly requested from the sector to fuel greenfield mega-projects,...

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Cruise ports: the most popular in 2015

PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of 2015 recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2015. As measured by Google Analytics the list of the top-5 news presented at PortEconomics on cruise ports are: 1. State of the art of the cruise industry & cruise ports The...

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Jean Monnet action European Port Policy: focus on Italy

The "Jean Monnet Action in European Port Policy", a European initiative to advance the study of port related initiatives and policies with the contribution of distinguised scholars and business leader, continues to develop at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of the University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece. In...

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Managerial Complexity in Shipping and Port Markets: IJSTL special issue

Managerial Complexity in Shipping and Port Markets is the theme of the special issue (Vol. 7, No. 5) of International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics with guest editors the PortEconomics members Francesco Parola and Pierre Cariou. The special issue contents contributions from PortEconomics members along with other...

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Disclosure as a tool in stakeholder relations management by port authorities: port of Rotterdam

The latest study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom, porteconomics member Francesco Parola, associate member Giovanni Satta and Lara Penco (University of Genoa)- published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Application- provides a conceptual framework for evaluating the communication strategies a (landlord)...

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Governance models and port concessions in Europe: commonalities, critical issues, policy perspectives

Current heterogeneity in EU port regulation is having an impact on the competitiveness of ports. Port Authorities have to take into account a wide range of goals in order to manage the interactions with private operators responsible for port activities. Thus, some trade-offs emerge, as in some cases a revenue stream or a strategic...

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Strategies in maritime and port logistics

In recent decades, the strategic thinking of shipping lines, private port firms and port authorities has been approached from various analytical perspectives. The introduction of constructs and theories from management research has allowed maritime and port studies to make substantial progress in the understanding of firms' behaviour,...

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