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The Balanced Theory of Port Competitiveness

open access: yesTransportation Journal, 2016
Abstract 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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The drivers of port competitiveness: a critical review

open access: yesTransport Reviews, 2016
Academic 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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Competitiveness and geopolitics of port corridors

2023
The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the link between corporate and state strategies and the resulting consequences for global value chains. In this context, we will examine the role of port corridors, with a particular focus on port strategy, in the light of the Chinese “Belt and Road Initiative,” a project fraught with both great promise and ...
Livolsi, Laurent, Camman, Christelle
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Port Competitiveness Evaluation Research based on Chernooff Faces Model

open access: yesProcedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
As the improvement of river and road network layout, the competitiveness between ports becomes increasingly fierce. The research on port competitiveness is inevitable to the development of China's market economy and it's also important for ports ...
Liu, Yao, Zhang, Peilin, Lu, Shengrong
exaly   +2 more sources

Container Port Competition and Competitiveness Analysis: Asian Major Ports

2014
This 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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Port Dues as an Element of Cruise Port Competitiveness

2016
During 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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