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The Nicaragua Canal: potential impact on international shipping and its attendant challenges

The construction of an interoceanic canal in Nicaragua, a longstanding controversy, has once again become a source of concern in recent years, in both the global shipping industry and the world at large. Since the canal was green-lighted by the Nicaraguan government, scientists and specialists have sharply criticized its potential to...

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Dynamics in shipping & ports: implications for seafarers & port-related workers

How the changing market environment in shipping and ports affects the requirements with regards to seafarers and dock workers? Which are the motivation tools and instruments for seafarers and dock workers taking into account the professional/ industry contexts? What is the role of career management and second career...

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Are container volumes in transhipment hubs more volatile than in gateway ports?

PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom, Francesco Parola and Giovanni Satta co-authored a study "The relationship between transhipment incidence and throughput volatility in North European and Mediterranean container ports". This study has recently been published in Journal of Transport Geography (74, pages 371-381). It is often argued...

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The relations between dry port characteristics and regional port-hinterland settings: findings for a global sample of dry ports

The latest port study of PortEconomics member Theo Notteboom co-authored with Lam Canh Nguyen (Vietnam Maritime University) aims at defining generic characteristics of dry ports by carrying out an analysis using a large sample of dry ports from around the world. The dataset included in the study details on 107 inland terminals...

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CO2 emission reductions of the global container ship fleet, 2007-2016: how much and why?

PortEconomics members Pierre Cariou, Francesco Parola and Theo Notteboom are the authors of a paper entitled "Towards low carbon global supply chains: A multi-trade analysis of CO2 emission reductions in container shipping". This study has just been published in the highly-ranked academic journal International Journal of Production...

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Dutch and Belgian container ports: life in the fast lane

By Theo Notteboom Belgian and Dutch container ports are located in the Rhine-Scheldt Delta, the largest container port region in Europe in volume terms. Dutch and Belgian ports together handled 25.8 million TEU in 2017 or 7.9% more than in 2016. The Belgian-Dutch port region recorded a year-on-year growth of 6.2% in Q1-Q3 2018, so...

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Towards low carbon global supply chains: CO2 emission reductions in container shipping

How individual factors contribute to the carbon footprint associated with international maritime container supply chains? This is the key question of the latest port study co-authored by PortEconomics members Pierre Cariou, Francesco Parola and Theo Notteboom. The authors advance their research providing four key contributions: ...

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Ports are their people: PortEconomics trains ETF seafarers & dockers

PortEconomics has the pleasure to train those working at European ports, commencing today a series of training sessions ETF affiliated maritime and dockers unions with the overall theme being “Know your sector!”. The training programme on maritime and ports is developed by ETF Dockers and ETF Seafarers - and is co-funded by...

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How do market changes affect dock labour in north European seaports?

Seaports increasingly act as turntables in global supply chains and global production networks. Still, cargo handling remains a primary function of seaports. Dock workers have a key role to play in guaranteeing efficient and safe cargo handling activities at terminals. The organisation of dock work in seaports has received quite some...

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