Contested industries have fallen under increased scrutiny of the public eye when it comes to their environmental performance. In particular the transport industry is still considered as a large polluter. Therefore, stakeholders put pressure on the industry to work on their environmental footprint. Shippers assess whether their supply...
PortEconomics.eu member Michaël Dooms was invited as one of the keynote speakers and panellists at the annual international workshop on Green Port Certification at the APEC Port Services Network (APSN) held in Beijing on 17th and 18th of April 17thand 18th. APSN has been running a Green Port Award System since 2016 aiming at enhancing...
Since the 1990s, negative environmental externalities related to port activity have been a widely researched topic, in particular since port expansion projects in developed economies got delayed due to litigation and court decisions invoking environmental harms (e.g. emissions) or losses (e.g. birds and habitats). The introduction of a...
The concept of resilience in seaport-related research is the subject of the PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom, Michael Dooms and Indra Vonck new port study. The authors build upon the notion of resilience based on the literature and construct an integrated framework of port resilience encompassing all layers of port...
The PORTOPIA project has entered its last year. This is a good time to make up a balance and to look into the future of the project. Therefore, we organised an interview with Isabelle Ryckbost, Secretary General of ESPO, and Michael Dooms, the PORTOPIA project coordinator.
1. What are the main achievements of the PORTOPIA project...
The PortEconomics team had the privilege to provide a customised edition of its flagship PortExecutive Seminar, this time in Panama, with the program attended by the personnel of the Panama Canal Authority
The 6th edition of the PortExecutive Seminar focused on business development for ports, and related industrial and...
Seaports are large networked infrastructures, which have considerable spatial impacts. Such infrastructures must be prepared to accommodate future developments within a context of stakeholder pressure. Similar to other large industrial operations generating substantial externalities, transport industries are large polluters.
In...
Providers of large-scale transport infrastructure are under increasing pressure to regulate the behavior of their users, in particular towards sustainable development objectives related to the environment. Just like airport managing companies apply environmental factors such as noise emission parameters of aircraft into their airline...
Whilst port infrastructure is crucial to the advancement of local and national economies, the fact remains that port infrastructure procurement, development and operations are costly both towards the capital expenditure needed to develop the assets, as well as the operating costs generated by running the assets.
As a result, in...
Port Experts and stakeholders are invited to reflect upon the performance of the port industry in the EU, and the further need to develop performance insights on the industry level.
An one-day event is organised in Lisbon on March 23rd, 2016, which can be combined with an IAPH-PIANC event on the stakeholder consultation of...
