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Black Sea: an emerging multi-port gateway region

The Black Sea ports represent an interesting case in view of the types, governance models and environment in which they operate and develop. The majority of Black Sea ports (Ukrainian, Russian, and Georgian) experienced tremendous economic and institutional changes in the last 20 years, from being Soviet centralized ports benefiting...

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The ukrainian crisis impact on regional port system

After the referendum in Crimea on March 16, 2014, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea became a part of the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014. This event incurred a complete change of legislative and regulatory institutions for ports and railways which previously were a part of the Ukrainian state-owned and centrally regulated transport...

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Port geography at the crossroads: between flows & spaces

Port research is not a new field of interest for human geographers, evidenced by numerous conceptual models and empirical cases of port evolution and development. However, several critical questions remain unanswered, notably the exact position of port geography as a subdiscipline within human geography in the past, present and...

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Stakeholder relations management: port of Rotterdam

A Port Authority (PA) constitutes an interesting example of a “hybrid organization”, where the boundary between private and public interests is blurred. Applying stakeholder management principles to the port domain might help better port strategy and management. PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom and PortEconomics member...

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Incentives in cruise terminal concession contracts

Concession contracts are widely used to structure the relationship between public managing bodies of ports who own the land and terminal operators who are granted the right to exploit the land for an agreed period of time. Academic literature primarily discusses concession contracts related to cargo terminals. However, common...

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Finding the best location for value-added logistics services (VALS)

PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom along with Lu Chen of ITMMA - University of Antwerp in Belgium jointly published a study in the academic journal International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management on "Cost perspective on the location of value-added logistics services in supply chains". The study discusses the location...

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Motivation tools for dock workers and seafarers

PortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom, along with Kyriaki Mitroussi (Cardiff University) published a port study entitled 'Getting the work done: motivation needs and processes for seafarers and dock workers' in the academic journal WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs. In the study, Theo and Kyriaki argue that most of current literature...

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LNG bunkering facilities in north-european ports

As the schedule for the application of the strict sulphur limits - enacted by IMO from 2015 - in the emission control areas (ECA) is fast approaching, ports not only find it their responsibility to quickly adapt to the upcoming emission regulations, but they also intend to rapidly respond to port users' environmental needs for obtaining...

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Outlook for european ports 2014

Theo Notteboom, PortEconomics co-director, provided an outlook of trends in the European port industry to port authorities and port sector experts that gathered in Sweden during the ESPO 2014 Conference. Theo presented the signs of recovery, although the traffic volumes are below those of 2008. There is a recovery in dry bulk while...

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