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    Geopolitical risks and port-related carbon emissions: evidence and policy implications

    Geopolitical risks and port-related carbon emissions: evidence and policy implications

    Investments and financing challenges of the EU’s port managing bodies; findings from a comprehensive survey

    Investments and financing challenges of the EU’s port managing bodies; findings from a comprehensive survey

    Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents:  Kuwait Shuwaikh Port

    Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents: Kuwait Shuwaikh Port

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

    Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

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    Port reform: World Bank publishes the third edition of its port reform toolkit

    Port reform: World Bank publishes the third edition of its port reform toolkit

    When will we admit that maritime transport will not be decarbonised by 2050?

    When will we admit that maritime transport will not be decarbonised by 2050?

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    The World Ports Tracker in TOC Europe

    The World Ports Tracker in TOC Europe

    Newly-upgraded IAPH World Ports Tracker identifies major sustainability and market trends

    Newly-upgraded IAPH World Ports Tracker identifies major sustainability and market trends

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    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    PhD posts in the area of ports and energy transition

    PhD posts in the area of ports and energy transition

    PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

    PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

    Accessibility or connectivity: why is it correct to say that in the Caribbean the main logistics problem is connectivity?

    Accessibility or connectivity: why is it correct to say that in the Caribbean the main logistics problem is connectivity?

    Cruise Port-City Compass

    Cruise Port-City Compass

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    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

    Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

    In a tight spot: American ports in global supply chains

    In a tight spot: American ports in global supply chains

    Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

    Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

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Posts tagged with "Francesco Parola"

Cruise ports: structures and strategies Cruise

Cruise ports: structures and strategies

The cruise industry has witnessed an uninterrupted growth over the last thirty years. An industry focused on the United States and the Caribbean emerged progressively as a global industry transporting close to 21 million passengers in 2013. While the global financial crisis of 2008–09 had a major impact over maritime shipping, cruise...
The effect of institutional factors on public–private partnership success in ports Featured

The effect of institutional factors on public–private partnership success in ports

Port public–private partnerships (PPPs) are an important emerging mechanism for port development and improvement in port performance especially for developing countries.  In a new port study of PortEconomics member Francesco Parola and PortEconomics associate member Jasmine Siu Lee Lam, along with Photis M. Panayides (Cyprus...
PortEconomics member joins MPM editorial board Noticeboard

PortEconomics member joins MPM editorial board

PortEconomics member Francesco Parola has been appointed as an Associate Editor of Maritime Policy & Management (MPM). MPM is a multi-disciplinary and international refereed journal, that brings together papers on the different topics that concern the maritime industry. MPM, which recently celebrated the 40 years anniversary, is...
Stakeholder relations management: port of Rotterdam Featured

Stakeholder relations management: port of Rotterdam

A Port Authority (PA) constitutes an interesting example of a “hybrid organization”, where the boundary between private and public interests is blurred. Applying stakeholder management principles to the port domain might help better port strategy and management. PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom and PortEconomics member...
Destination satisfaction: Cruiser expenditures & behavioural intensions predictor Cruise

Destination satisfaction: Cruiser expenditures & behavioural intensions predictor

Porteconomics member Francesco Parola, along with Giovanni Satta (Department of Economics and Management, University of Genoa), Lara Penco and Luca Persico (Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa) presented their latest research on "Destination satisfaction as a predictor of cruiser expenditures and...
Clique survival in the port industry network: a longitudinal perspective Featured

Clique survival in the port industry network: a longitudinal perspective

PortEconomics associate member Francesco Parola (Department of Business Studies, University of Naples “Parthenope”), along with Giovanni Satta (Department of Economics and Management, University of Genoa) and Simone Caschili (UCL QASER Lab & Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London) presented their latest...
Networks and 'hidden families' in the container port industry Containers

Networks and 'hidden families' in the container port industry

The factors underlying foreign entry strategies of terminal operators in container ports is the theme of a port study by PortEconomics  member Francesco Parola, along with Giovanni Satta (University of Genoa) and Simone Caschili (University College London)to appear in a forthcoming issue of the scholarly journal Maritime Policy and...
Foreign entry strategies of terminal operators in container ports Containers

Foreign entry strategies of terminal operators in container ports

PortEconomics member Francesco Parola, along with PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom, PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Giovanni Satta (Department of Economics, University of Genoa) have published a port study in the 33rd issue of the scholarly Journal of the Transport Geography. The study provides an analysis of...
PORTOPIA: PortEconomics leads the flagship european project Featured

PORTOPIA: PortEconomics leads the flagship european project

PortEconomics members, joined by leading researchers and firms in Europe embark in a new major reasearch program aiming at improving the resource efficiency and competitiveness of the European Port System. This is one of the flagship research projects financially supported by the European Commission, in an attempt to facilitate...
Port authority strategies: The 'internationalisation' challenge Noticeboard

Port authority strategies: The 'internationalisation' challenge

"Internationalization" as a prospect and challenge has been the focus of the discussions on port authority strategies during the 11th Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) that met in Marseilles, France on Tuesday, 2 July 2013. PortEconomics member Michael Dooms and associate nembers Larissa van der Lugt and Francesco...
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