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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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Containerization, inter-port competition, and port selection
Maritime Policy & Management, 1985This paper explores the criteria shippers employ in the port selection process. By focusing on the containerized traffic between the North American Mid-West and Western Europe, the factors considered by exporters and freight forwarders are examined. The findings suggest that decision-makers are influenced more by price and service considerations of ...
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Improving the competitiveness of Italian ports
2012Atti del 1° convegno nazionale "Porti e navigazione" - Roma 23 maggio ...
Musso, Antonio +2 more
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Container transshipment and port competition
Maritime Policy & Management, 2013The purpose of this paper is to study container port competition for transshipment cargo in duopoly market. We develop the linear container handling demand function which incorporates transshipment traffic, and apply a non-cooperative two-stage game to a vertical-structure seaport market with ports as upstream players and shipping lines as downstream ...
Bae, M.J. +3 more
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Ports: Competition and Labor Issues
199032nd Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct.
TRF, TRF
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