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Scheduling Tugboats in a Seaport
Transportation Science, 2021In a seaport, vessels need the assistance of tugboats when mooring and unmooring. Tugboats assist a vessel by pushing or towing the vessel’s tug points, and the vessel can moor (or unmoor) successfully only if each of the tug points is operated with sufficient horsepower.
Shuai Jia +3 more
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The Competitive Advantage of Seaports [PDF]
International journal of maritime economics, 2000 This article aims to identify empirically the most important location advantages determining the port of Antwerp's competitive position for containers and conventional cargo as compared to its main rivals in the Hamburg-Le Havre range. A conceptual framework is developed for analysing the competitiveness of seaports, based on an extended version of ...
Haezendonck, Elvira +4 more
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European Journal of Operational Research, 2020
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Lingxiao Wu, Shuai Jia, Shuaian Wang
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Lingxiao Wu, Shuai Jia, Shuaian Wang
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Governance in Seaport Clusters [PDF]
Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2004 Seaports can be meaningfully analysed with a cluster perspective. In this perspective, seaports are regarded as concentrations of economic activity related to the arrival and service of ships and cargoes at ports. This perspective has two main advantages: first, it draws attention to forces of agglomeration and disagglomeration in seaports.
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Seaport marketing: a census of Australian seaports
2004In recent times, the Australian seaport sector has witnessed a transformation in ownership, management, and operations as a result of government reform and developments in the broader maritime industry. This has created a hypercompetitive environment, typical of the New Economy, in which seaports must now manage. Seaports are facing an erosion of their
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Economic policies and seaports: The economic functions of seaports
Maritime Policy & Management, 1990This paper argues that the economic functions of seaports are to benefit those whose trade passes through them, i.e. through providing increments to consumers' and producers' surpluses. Whilst recent developments in the technologies of seaports (containers, bigger ships, more rapid handling of bulk cargoes) have increased technical efficiency, they ...
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Seaport efficiency and competitiveness in European seaports
Transport Policy, 2022Rabeb Kammoun, Chokri Abdennadher
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