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Uncertainty and volatility in shipping and ports

December 2nd, 2014 Containers, Featured, Noticeboard, PortStudies

MPMPortEconomics co-director Theo Notteboom (Dalian Maritime University, China) and associate member Jasmine Siu Lee Lam (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) acted as guest editors of a brand new Special Issue of the flagship journal Maritime Policy and Management (MPM) on the theme “Dealing with uncertainty and volatility in shipping and ports”.

The Special Issue covers the December issue of MPM (vol. 41, no. 7). The Special Issue is dedicated to the ways shipping freight markets, and port operators are dealing or can deal with market uncertainty and risks. A total of six papers were withheld for inclusion in this Special Issue. The papers address various aspects, including the behavior and strategy of terminal operators to face uncertainty and volatility, risk assessment in shipping and ports, freight rate forecasting, and the relation between shipping freight markets or sub-markets. The contributions touch upon both theoretical and empirical approaches.

The table of contents is as follows:

Guest Editorial: Dealing with uncertainty and volatility in shipping and ports
Theo Notteboom and Jasmine Siu Lee Lam

Dealing with uncertainty and volatility in the port industry network: social and instrumental antecedents of “clique” survival
Giovanni Satta, Francesco Parola and Simone Caschili

An advanced risk analysis approach for container port safety evaluation
Hani Alyami, Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Zaili Yang, Ramin Riahi, Stephen Bonsall and Jin Wang

The relative efficiency and financial risk assessment of shipping companies
Grace W.Y. Wang, Su-Han Woo and Joan Mileski

An investigation of forecast horizon and observation fi t’s infl uence on an econometric rate forecast model in the liner shipping industry
Peter Nielsen, Liping Jiang, Niels Gorm Malý Rytter and Gang Chen

Spillover effects and dynamic correlations between spot and forward tanker freight markets
Kevin X. Li, Guanqiu Qi, Wenming Shi, Zhongzhi Yang, Hee-Seok Bang, Su-Han Woo and Tsz Leung Yip

Return lead–lag and volatility transmission in shipping freight markets
Yao-Jen Hsiao, Heng-Chih Chou and Chun-Chou Wu

Visit the journal website for access to the Special Issue.

Dr. Theo Notteboom is co-founder and co-director of PortEconomics. He is a professor in port and maritime economics and management with about 25 years of experience in this area. His work is widely cited. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and a rapporteur/expert to leading organizations in the field. He is Chair Professor at Ghent University in Belgium. He is a visiting Research Professor at China Institute of FTZ Supply Chain of Shanghai Maritime University. He also is part-time Professor at University of Antwerp and the Antwerp Maritime Academy in Belgium. He previously held a full-time position as High-end Foreign Expert / Professor at Dalian Maritime University in China (2014-2016) and an MPA visiting professorship in port management at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is immediate past President (2010-2014) and Council Member of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME). Between October 2006 and October 2014 he was President of ITMMA of the University of Antwerp. Between 2009 and 2014 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Belgian Institute of Transport Organizers (BITO), an institute of the Belgian Federal Government.

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