Posts tagged with "Jean-Paul Rodrigue"

Profiling global container ports Containers

Profiling global container ports

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Container ports are reflective of the world's commercial geography particularly since they dominantly handle finished and intermediate goods. Commodities are becoming more prevalent, but still remain a niche market. The map below shows container volumes in 2012 for ports above half a million TEU. Surprisingly,...
The disadvantages of scale in maritime shipping Containers

The disadvantages of scale in maritime shipping

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue Maritime shipping, more than any other form of transportation, benefits from economies of scale since they have a direct impact on its operational costs. There has thus been a tendency to deploy larger ships, particularly in container shipping, to service high volume trade routes such as between Asia and...
Keeping it cool: challenges for the containerised reefer trade Containers

Keeping it cool: challenges for the containerised reefer trade

Refrigerated containers, also known as reefers, account for a growing share of the refrigerated cargo being transported around the world. In 1980, 33% of the refrigerated transport capacity in maritime shipping was containerised, this share rapidly climbed to 72% in 2013. Because of the additional insulation, and particularly because...
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...
Competitiveness of ports in emerging markets: Durban, South Africa Containers

Competitiveness of ports in emerging markets: Durban, South Africa

Durban is the main gateway port of Africa. It is the largest port in Africa, which concentrates more than two thirds of the total container traffic to and from South Africa. It has strong maritime connections with the rest of the world: it has both a central position in port networks and a large diversity of connections with other...
Port geography at the crossroads: between flows & spaces Featured

Port geography at the crossroads: between flows & spaces

Port research is not a new field of interest for human geographers, evidenced by numerous conceptual models and empirical cases of port evolution and development. However, several critical questions remain unanswered, notably the exact position of port geography as a subdiscipline within human geography in the past, present 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...
The waves of containerisation: shifts in global maritime transportation Containers

The waves of containerisation: shifts in global maritime transportation

PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue provides evidence of the cyclic behavior of containerization through an analysis of long, medium and short waves of container ports. His guest lecture at the USC Price Sol Prize School of Public Policy has been recorded and provides valuable information about the box. The container, like any...
The Panama canal today: impacts on world economy and competition Featured

The Panama canal today: impacts on world economy and competition

PortEconomics member Jean-Paul Rodrigue delivered a keynote presentation on the impacts of the Panama Canal on world economy and competition, during the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) that was held in Washington DC, January 12-16, 2014. Jean-Paul discussed the impacts  of transoceacnic passages and...
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