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    Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents: Kuwait Shuwaikh Port

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    Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

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    Port reform: World Bank publishes the third edition of its port reform toolkit

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    When will we admit that maritime transport will not be decarbonised by 2050?

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    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

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    The World Ports Tracker in TOC Europe

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    Newly-upgraded IAPH World Ports Tracker identifies major sustainability and market trends

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    PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

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    Accessibility or connectivity: why is it correct to say that in the Caribbean the main logistics problem is connectivity?

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    Webinar: short sea shipping services in the southern Caribbean region

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    Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

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    In a tight spot: American ports in global supply chains

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    Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

    Antwerp-Bruges surpasses Rotterdam in Q1 2025: a structural shift or short-term fluctuation?

    Antwerp-Bruges surpasses Rotterdam in Q1 2025: a structural shift or short-term fluctuation?

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Video: changing demand for maritime tradeContainers

Video: changing demand for maritime trade

October 8th, 2020 Containers, Presentations, Thematic Area

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Optimizing Asia–Europe container network: The Suez Canal and Cape of Good Hope routes in a changing world
PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally
PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally
Successful adoption of maritime environmental policy: The Mediterranean emission control area
Successful adoption of maritime environmental policy: The Mediterranean emission control area
Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines
Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

PortEconomics member Pierre Cariou joined the Octopi by Navis Team during TOS Talks session on Port Economics and a discussion on his latest published paper, “Changing Demand for Maritime Trade”.

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Pierre Cariou

Pierre Cariou is Senior Professor at Kedge Business School, Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Maritime University and at the World Maritime University (WMU). He is Head of the Maritime Governance, Trade and Logistics Lab of KEDGE Supply chain center of excellence and Associate member of the Hapag-Lloyd/Khüne Logistic University Global Logistics Research Center. He held the French Chair in Maritime Affairs at WMU from 2004 to 2010 and started his academic carrier as Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Nantes (France). He completed his PhD on liner shipping strategies and contributed since 2010 to several reports for various shipping-related companies (French shipowner Association, SKS Tanker, LDA, SOCATRA, CMA CGM…), Port Authorities (Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, Port La Nouvelle, and Marseille), Shippers (Casino/SRS Group…), Banks (NATIXIS)... His main research interests are in shipping/port economics and shipping environmental protection and safety, on which he published more than 80 peer-review articles. He is an associate member of https://www.porteconomics.eu/, and he was the International Association of Maritime Economists’ Vice President (2014-2016) and KEDGE Business School Director of Research (2015-2017).

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