Posts tagged with "Theo Notteboom"

How dependent are west-med ports on containers? Containers

How dependent are west-med ports on containers?

By Theo Notteboom In last week's infographic, Theo Notteboom analysed the container dependency of major North-European ports. But how is the situation in southern Europe? How dependent are West-Mediterranean ports on container traffic? As before, there are three dimensions in the infographic. The vertical axis shows the container...
Focus on short sea shipping Featured

Focus on short sea shipping

Theo Notteboom, PortEconomics co-director, gave a presentation on 'Short sea shipping in motion: the contribution of academic research in the period 1980 - 2015' at the closing plenary session of the GPRA conference (Global Port Research Alliance) held in Hong Kong on 21 and 22 May 2015. The early 1990s saw a growing interest in...
Different speeds in regional container growth in China Containers

Different speeds in regional container growth in China

By Theo Notteboom Only 25 years ago, the container port system in mainland China was still in its infancy stage. During that time, Hong Kong acted as the only container gateway to China and Taiwanese ports Kaohsiung and Keelung benefited from Taiwan's economic success story in international trade. In May 1980, the Chinese government...
Strategic evaluation of the belgian port sector and accompanying services Featured

Strategic evaluation of the belgian port sector and accompanying services

PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom and Indra Vonck (University of Antwerp) published a study commissioned by ING Bank on the strategic evaluation of the Belgian port sector and accompanying services. The goal of this study is twofold. Next to analysing the added value based of a classical economic analysis the study defines and...
Economic impact of the port of Antwerp on the hinterland Featured

Economic impact of the port of Antwerp on the hinterland

PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom published a study commissioned by the Province of Antwerp on the employment and value added impact of the port of Antwerp on the municipalities in the Province of Antwerp and part of the Province of East Flanders in Belgium. The aim of the study was to analyse how much employment and value added...
Port economics @port lunch Flanders 2015 Featured

Port economics @port lunch Flanders 2015

PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom moderated the 'Port Lunch Flanders' event on 5 March 2015 in Antwerp. Some 150 participants joined the event which was organized by Management Producties. The conference theme was megatrends in seaports. A highlight of the day was a panel debate with Luc Arnouts (CCO, Port of Antwerp), Joachim...
Upstream container ports in northern Europe: alive and kicking Containers

Upstream container ports in northern Europe: alive and kicking

By Theo Notteboom One could think that the days for upstream ports are counted given a growing demand for a good nautical accessibility and a fast turnaround time for the ever larger container vessels. A closer look at Antwerp and Hamburg, two of the largest upstream container ports in the world, urges us to think again. In the past...
Alliances in container shipping: searching for the best dance partners Containers

Alliances in container shipping: searching for the best dance partners

By Theo Notteboom Operational co-operation between container shipping companies comes in many forms ranging from slot-chartering and vessel-sharing agreements to multi-trade strategic alliances. The first strategic alliances between shipping lines date back to the mid-1990s, a period that coincided with the introduction of the first...
Top 13 container port regions in the world: the rise of China Containers

Top 13 container port regions in the world: the rise of China

By Theo Notteboom Container port rankings look at individual ports. Following such an approach Shanghai is the largest container port in the world (35.28 million TEU in 2014) followed by Singapore (33.87 million TEU). Such rankings can be a bit misleading as regions with several medium-sized container ports might seem less important...
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