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    Container terminal automation: revealing distinctive terminal characteristics and operating parameters

    Container terminal automation: revealing distinctive terminal characteristics and operating parameters

    Modal shift ambitions of large North European ports: A contract-theory perspective on the role of port managing bodies

    Modal shift ambitions of large North European ports: A contract-theory perspective on the role of port managing bodies

    First survey-based IAPH World Ports Tracker report to improve resilience

    First survey-based IAPH World Ports Tracker report to improve resilience

    How do sustainable port practices influence local communities’ perceptions of ports?

    How do sustainable port practices influence local communities’ perceptions of ports?

    Revisiting port system delineation through an analysis of maritime interdependencies among seaports

    Revisiting port system delineation through an analysis of maritime interdependencies among seaports

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    Synchronisation across maritime value chains can ease inflation

    Synchronisation across maritime value chains can ease inflation

    Top 15 container ports in the European Union in 2021

    Top 15 container ports in the European Union in 2021

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    Port finance and regulation in Kenya

    PortGraphic: top15 container ports in the European Union in Q1-Q3 2021

    PortGraphic: top15 container ports in the European Union in Q1-Q3 2021

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    Levels of global port integrity

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    Developing China’s ports, how the gateways to economic prosperity were revived

    Developing China’s ports, how the gateways to economic prosperity were revived

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    Greek ports: Connectivity upgrades their role in international maritime trade

    IAPH new quarterly report globally and per region will help ports to detect trends early on and enhance resilience

    IAPH new quarterly report globally and per region will help ports to detect trends early on and enhance resilience

    The embeddedness of Thessaloniki port in the maritime transport networks

    The embeddedness of Thessaloniki port in the maritime transport networks

    Synchronisation across maritime value chains can ease inflation

    Synchronisation across maritime value chains can ease inflation

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Posts tagged with "Peter de Langen"

Developing China’s ports, how the gateways to economic prosperity were revived Featured

Developing China’s ports, how the gateways to economic prosperity were revived

Many countries in Africa and Asia have coastlines that present opportunities for them to become gateways for trade between the hinterlands and global trading routes. However, policy makers struggle to translate this potential into engines of economic development and social transformation. In the past 40 years, China has taken advantage...
Productive arrangements in container logistics Containers

Productive arrangements in container logistics

PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen wrote a policy report to help shape port policies in Brazil. The report ‘Productive Arrangements in Container Logistics: Policy Challenges for Granting Terminal Concessions’, was commissioned by the leading Brazilian terminal operator BTP, and written, in full independence, by Peter de...
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...
The Analyst: emerging global market for storing and utilising carbon Featured

The Analyst: emerging global market for storing and utilising carbon

A stream of recent announcements suggests that a global market for storing and utilising carbon is emerging, comments Peter de Langen. Carbon can be captured from industrial processes like producing oil refi neries, ethanol production or turning gas or coal into chemicals (such capture is relatively cheap) and from power plants (for...
Book Review: Towards a Better Ports Industry Category

Book Review: Towards a Better Ports Industry

Two reviews of Towards a Better Ports Industry, by PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen The book Towards a Better Ports Industry, written by PortEconomics co-director Peter de Langen was published last year. Recently, two reviews of the book, which is aimed at students and industry professionals, were published in academic...
The Analyst: unconventional steps to combat crime? European Port Policy

The Analyst: unconventional steps to combat crime?

Drug crime has been present in ports for centuries and is unlikely to ever go away, writes Peter de Langen. In some ports, like Rotterdam and Antwerp, much more attention has been given to drug crime recently. It is increasingly clear that workers in various activities, such as terminals, container depots and warehouses...
The localisation trend and the impact on ports Featured

The localisation trend and the impact on ports

Maritime freight flows are the result of past supply chain design choices - if companies design global supply chains this results in global freight flows, comments Peter de Langen. Supply chain design choices generally lead to investments (in assets, partnerships and the like) and thus cannot be changed overnight. Hence, the current...
The Analyst: further steps needed for new merger Featured

The Analyst: further steps needed for new merger

On goes the wave of mergers of port development companies, this time between the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, writes The Analyst Peter de Langen. The merger has been long in the making, in contrast with some other cases, where the initiative came from the ports themselves (for instance the nearby Ghent and Zeeland Seaports merger...
The Analyst: a strategic plan, it may tick all the boxes but is it radical enough? European Port Policy

The Analyst: a strategic plan, it may tick all the boxes but is it radical enough?

By Peter de Langen The French Haropa ports, Le Havre, Rouen and Paris are steadily implementing the full merger announced over two years ago; the final step should be ready June this year. As an important part of the integration, they recently published a strategic plan until 2025.  The plan is an interesting read and clearly...
What drives ports around the world to adopt air emissions abatement measures? European Port Policy

What drives ports around the world to adopt air emissions abatement measures?

The reduction of Greenhouse gasses (GHG) and other air emissions represents a major challenge for ports. Ports so far have only taken limited steps to this end, but there are large differences between ports. PortEconomics members Henrik Sornn Friese, Peter de Langen, and co-authors René Taudal Poulsen and Agnieszka Urszula...
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