Posts tagged with "Theo Notteboom"

Mega vessels: the adaptive capacity of upstream ports Antwerp and Hamburg Containers

Mega vessels: the adaptive capacity of upstream ports Antwerp and Hamburg

Port system development is a key theme in port geography literature. Recent decades have brought a rise in container terminal development at estuarine, coastal and offshore port locations, in part driven by scale increases in vessel size. The latest port study of PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom examines how container ports...
The Panama canal expansion: they dug it, will they come? Containers

The Panama canal expansion: they dug it, will they come?

By Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Theo Notteboom Shifting Rationale The interoceanic canals of the global shipping network are undergoing a major upgrading. One year after the expansion of the Suez Canal aimed at facilitating two-way vessel traffic, we are witnessing the opening of a new and larger set of locks at the Panama Canal. The new...
One-belt-one-road and hundreds european ports Containers

One-belt-one-road and hundreds european ports

How the One-belt-one-road (OBOR) policy might affect european port-hinterland dynamics? In 2013 Xi Jinping embarked in a strategy to “break the connectivity bottleneck” in Asia.  60 countries are already involved, with this policy impacting 4.4 billion people.  In March 2015, the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiatives action...
PortGraphic: dynamics in alliance formation in container shipping Containers

PortGraphic: dynamics in alliance formation in container shipping

By Theo Notteboom Alliances are about operational vessel-sharing co-operation between container shipping companies on multiple trade routes (mostly east-west). The first strategic alliances between shipping lines date back to the mid-1990s, a period that coincided with the introduction of the first post-Panamax containers...
Portgraphic: Top 15 european container ports in 2015 Containers

Portgraphic: Top 15 european container ports in 2015

By Theo Notteboom The portgraphic shows the top 15 container ports in the European Union in 2015 based on container throughput expressed in TEU. It also includes container growth figures compared to 2014 and pre-crisis year 2007. What can we observe? 1. The total volume of the top 15 ports saw a small traffic decline of...
Container port competition in Europe Containers

Container port competition in Europe

Port competition emerged as a complex and multi-faceted concept due to changes in the market environment of ports and the resulting intensification of rivalry between operators in the same port, between neighbouring ports, be-tween multi-port gateway regions and between entire port ranges. PortEconomics co-directors Theo Notteboom...
Dutch and Belgian container ports in 2015: mixed results, mixed feelings Containers

Dutch and Belgian container ports in 2015: mixed results, mixed feelings

By Theo Notteboom The current volatility in the container business is very visible when looking at the results of the container ports in the Rhine-Scheldt Delta, the largest container port region in Europe in volume terms and ranked 6th worldwide. Dutch and Belgian ports together handled 23.54 million TEU in 2015 or just 0.45% more...
Container ports: the most popular in 2015 Containers

Container ports: the most popular in 2015

PortEconomics is celebrating the ending of 2015 recapping the articles that have captured the interest of the visitors of our web initiative so far for 2015. As measured by Google Analytics the list of the top-5 papers on container ports: 1. Scenarios on alliance formation in container shipping Having demonstrated how strategic...
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