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Port Dues as an Element of Cruise Port Competitiveness
2016During development of maritime cruise industry, cruise companies carefully selected attractive destinations for their itineraries. There are few studies about cruise ports and destinations suggesting that this element of cruising has been scientifically neglected.
Luković, T., Asić, A.
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Container Port Competition and Competitiveness Analysis: Asian Major Ports
2014This chapter evaluates the competitive edge of major Asian container ports, i.e. Busan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore ports, referring to the customer-centric community ports, so-called the Fifth Generation Ports, of which the concept has been modified for evaluation. The literature of competitiveness of container ports applied a number of methods,
Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Jasmine Siu Lee Lam
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Container Port Competition in Europe
2014Port competition has become 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, between multi-port gateway regions and between entire port ranges.
Notteboom, Theo E., de Langen, Peter W.
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Analysis of the benefits of intra-port competition. [PDF]
International Journal of Transport Economics, 2005 Intra-port competition is widely regarded as beneficial, for the competitiveness of ports, for local and national economies and for consumers and exporting industries. The aim of the paper is to analyse the benefits resulting from the presence of intra-port competition.
Peter W. De Langen, Athanasios A. Pallis
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The drivers of port competitiveness: a critical review
Transport Reviews, 2016Academic research on port competitiveness has so far focused on the identification of the drivers of port competitiveness and their measurement.
Francesco Parola +3 more
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Port Competitiveness and the EU ‘Port Services’ Directive: the Case of Greek Ports
Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2005The European Union (EU) institutions have discussed but failed to agree on a proposal for a ‘port services’ directive that would introduce free market access to port services provision. This paper examines the impact that this EU policy initiative could have on Greek ports.
Athanasios A Pallis, George K Vaggelas
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Does Port Competitiveness Effect Port Users’ Competitiveness?
2018This study investigates association between port competitiveness and port users’ competitiveness through a case study of the Chittagong Port of Bangladesh. Existing maritime literature is focused on major ports of Europe, East Asia and North America; but many secondary ports of the mainline maritime network, which play a crucial role in their countries,
Munim, Ziaul Haque +1 more
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Competition, Excess Capacity and the Pricing of Port Infrastructure [PDF]
International journal of maritime economics, 2002 Intensified inter-port competition, combined with automated labour-saving cargo handling systems, reduces the local economic impacts of port investments, as well as the value-added of port activities. In such a situation, the beneficial impacts of low port prices are not localized, but are instead dissipated from the country in question to the foreign ...
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Port competition: competition effects of vertical integration in container ports
2019Το κύριο κίνητρο της παρούσας διδακτορικής διατριβής είναι η διερεύνηση του ανταγωνισμού των θαλάσσιων λιμένων εμπορευματοκιβωτίων (ε/κ) σε επίπεδο τερματικών σταθμών, και συγκεκριμένα των επιπτώσεων του ανταγωνισμού της κάθετης ενοποίησης μεταξύ εταιριών τακτικών γραμμών και τερματικών σταθμών ε/κ (liner – terminal vertical integration, LTVI ...
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The Balanced Theory of Port Competitiveness
Transportation Journal, 2016Abstract Due to weakening demand since the 2008 global recession, ports have had to reconsider how to compete differently to attract new business and new investors. Extant literature mainly focuses on either customer competitiveness or investor competitiveness.
Hales, Douglas +2 more
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