IAPH has released its fifth edition of the World Ports Tracker for quarter 2 of 2023, which contains the most comprehensive situation report on economic activity by ports themselves, as well as by using S&P Global container market intelligence data and now UNCTAD-MDST’s liner shipping connectivity index, both on container trade...
PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom provides insight on the EU container port landscape in the first half of 2023:
Most top 15 #container #ports in the #European #Union show a moderate to strong year-on-year decline in TEU throughput in H1 2023. For quite a few ports, these negative figures come on top of the traffic losses...
PortEconomics members Geraldine Knatz, Theo Notteboom, and Thanos Pallis' latest portstudy identifies and analyzes the relative importance of the multi-faceted factors that drive the decision to automate container terminals and the realized benefits, thus establishing how accurately terminal operators predicted the benefits of...
PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom compiled a list of the top 15 container ports in the European Union (EU) in 2022 based on the container throughput in TEU and analyses the findings.
"While the ranking of the top 15 container ports in the European Union (EU) in 2022 based on the container throughput in TEU might...
The latest IAPH World Port Tracker reports lower congestion and call size reductions with modest average port productivity gains in some regions; investments move ahead in infrastructure, new land use and sustainability projects; resurgence in cruise and ferry passenger volumes continues at pace.
The International Association of...
The prioritization of alternative energy sources for sustainable shipping is the theme of the latest study by PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom – along with Ziaul Haque Munim, Mojahid Chowdhury and Hasan Mahbub Tusher.
The research assesses seven energy sources for shipping with a view to ranking their prospects...
The sea–sea transhipment of containers between vessels has become a key part of the container handling activities in the global maritime shipping network constituting 25.8% of the worldwide container port throughput in 2017 (Drewry Shipping Consultants, 2018). Since the 1990s, the global port system has seen the development of...
PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom and Hercules Haralambides (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, People’s Republic of China; The Sorbonne School of Economics, Paris, France) latest publication is on #green #hydrogen and #seaports which has been published in the scholarly...
"MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company and A.P. Moller - Maersk announced they have mutually agreed to discontinue the 2M alliance, set to end in January 2025. This implies that the 10-year agreement which was signed in 2015 will not be extended.
In a presentation on the future of #alliances in container shipping...
Shipping lines have recently been reshaping their operations to include more logistics integration, which could indicate a change in business strategy. The latest paper of PortEconomics member Theo Notteboom and Hubert Paridaens (Antwerp Maritime Academy) analyses recent developments in the strategic paths of Maersk Line, CMA CGM and MSC...
