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    Geopolitical leverage through the international activities of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in ports and maritime logistics

    Geopolitical leverage through the international activities of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in ports and maritime logistics

    Risk-driven supply chain designs – a re-assessment with geopolitical and geoeconomic considerations

    Risk-driven supply chain designs – a re-assessment with geopolitical and geoeconomic considerations

    Rhine-Scheldt delta port system

    Rhine-Scheldt delta port system

    A metric of global maritime supply chain disruptions: The global supply chain stress index - maritime (GSCSI-M)

    A metric of global maritime supply chain disruptions: The global supply chain stress index - maritime (GSCSI-M)

    ESG disclosure as a proxy of port corporate communication and sustainable management strategy: An LDA approach

    ESG disclosure as a proxy of port corporate communication and sustainable management strategy: An LDA approach

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    Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2026

    Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2026

    European ports: The need to avoid the great divide

    European ports: The need to avoid the great divide

    Florence maritime regulation conference: PortEconomics members shape maritime regulation

    Florence maritime regulation conference: PortEconomics members shape maritime regulation

    New edition: Developing ports as business ecosystems

    New edition: Developing ports as business ecosystems

    European Ports: Reflection on policies and strategies for the energy transition

    European Ports: Reflection on policies and strategies for the energy transition

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    Call for papers: Contemporary Maritime Economics: Transformations and Emerging Perspectives

    Call for papers: Contemporary Maritime Economics: Transformations and Emerging Perspectives

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    Call for papers: 1st Florence Maritime Regulation Conference

    Call for papers: 1st Florence Maritime Regulation Conference

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    PortEconomics co-director appointed Senior Scientific Advisor to the Florence School of Regulation

    Jean Monnet Chair in European Port Policy

    Jean Monnet Chair in European Port Policy

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    Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2026

    Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2026

    European ports: The need to avoid the great divide

    European ports: The need to avoid the great divide

    New edition: Developing ports as business ecosystems

    New edition: Developing ports as business ecosystems

    Maritime and port strategies as state policies: an introductory approach

    Maritime and port strategies as state policies: an introductory approach

    European Ports: Reflection on policies and strategies for the energy transition

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Posts tagged with "Theo Notteboom"

PORTOPIA:  final event to shed a light on the future of port performance Featured

PORTOPIA: final event to shed a light on the future of port performance

The PORTOPIA partners - including several PortEconomics members - are happy to present the outcome of the project and to shed a light on future developments during the Final Event that will take place on November 9, 2017 in the BNP Paribas Fortis Auditorium Marais in Brussels (Belgium). This event must be seen as a milestone in the data...
PortGraphic | Top 15 European container ports: 1st half 2017 growth Containers

PortGraphic | Top 15 European container ports: 1st half 2017 growth

By Theo Notteboom The table shows the top 15 container ports in the European Union in 2016 based on container throughput expressed in TEU and the year-on-year growth in H1 2017 (for some ports Q1 2017). No figures were available for Marsaxlokk. What do the figures reveal? With an overall growth figure of 3.7%, the...
Emission control taxes in different port competition and co-operation settings European Port Policy

Emission control taxes in different port competition and co-operation settings

Using a game theory approach, the latest port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom and Cui Han (University of Antwerp, Belgium) analyses a situation in which the government imposes a certain emission tax on vessels and port operations for emission control in port areas. Two ports are considered: a purely private port and...
PortGraphic | Top EU container port regions (2007-2016): the rise of South Europe Category

PortGraphic | Top EU container port regions (2007-2016): the rise of South Europe

By Theo Notteboom Total container throughput in the EU increased by 13.9% between pre-crisis year 2007 and 2016. Rotterdam is the largest container port in Europe (12.38 million TEU in 2016) followed by Antwerp (10.04 million TEU) and Hamburg (8.91 million TEU). When grouping seaports together in multiple-port regions we get a...
PortGraphic | Upscale or die: from 20 to a handful of global container carriers Containers

PortGraphic | Upscale or die: from 20 to a handful of global container carriers

By Theo Notteboom Since 2014, the container shipping industry is witnessing a massive wave of carrier consolidation. In mid-2014, Hamburg Süd acquired CCNI (Compañía Chilena de Navegación Interoceánica). In December 2014, the merger between Hapag-Lloyd and CSAV (Companía Sud Americana de Vapores) was completed. In late...
PortEconomics members study on cruise terminals wins best paper award at IAME2017 Cruise

PortEconomics members study on cruise terminals wins best paper award at IAME2017

PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis, Francesco Parola, Giovanni Satta, and Theo Notteboom study on private entry and emerging partnerships in cruise terminals operations in cruise ports in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas has won the Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL) Best paper award at the Annual Conference of the...
Performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the port industry Featured

Performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the port industry

Market players active in the port industry deploy a range of financial sources to meet the growing investment requirements in port infrastructure and to fund their (overseas) expansion strategies. Recent empirical evidence shows that equity capital markets are expected to extend their role in this regard. The latest port study of...
Revisiting port performance measurement Featured

Revisiting port performance measurement

The development of a new port performance measurement model by taking the perspectives from different port stakeholders is the theme of the new portstudy of PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom and Adolf Ng, along with Min-Ho Ha (Liverpool John Moores University), Zaili Yang (Liverpool John Moores University, Dalian Maritime...
PortGraphic: Comparing trends in top-10 container ports - Europe vs USA Category

PortGraphic: Comparing trends in top-10 container ports - Europe vs USA

By Thanos Pallis and Theo Notteboom What happened in the major container ports in Europe and US in 2016? Have the trends been similar? What have been the long-term trends, i.e. when comparing last year’s volumes with those recorded the pre-crisis year 2007? While several indicators related to logistics performance,...
PortGraphic: container port activity around the straits of Gibraltar (1985-2016) Containers

PortGraphic: container port activity around the straits of Gibraltar (1985-2016)

By Theo Notteboom The Straits of Gibraltar is one of the most strategic points on East-West maritime trade lanes. Ports in the wider region around the Straits have good reasons to convince shipping lines of making a call at their container terminal facilities for transhipment and interlining purposes. The container volumes in the...
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