is relevant from a port competition perspective. These figures can also be employed to check the usefulness of commonly …There is an ongoing debate on the concentration of container throughput in the European container port system. A … ports argue that a shift in port traffic from the north to the south would be beneficial for the environment and the economy …

fixing the port activity boundaries and the spatial perimeter of the firms investigated. Several NUTS (Nomenclature of … a useful comparable labour indicator. Empirical results reveal that each port area presents a combination of the NACE …

compete. This paper aims to help understand how pressures for competition and cooperation conflict, what problems this causes …, what drives these tensions, and how these can be resolved. The drivers of port competitiveness are generally conceptualized … 'hard', quantifiable factors, the qualitative relational underpinnings of port performance are often overlooked. This paper …

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to investigate the factors that encourage shipping lines to use port of Sohar …, in Oman. Some selected factors were used to assess to what extent it affects the port choice from shipping lines … companies' perspective. These factors include infrastructure, hinterland, connectivity and port's dues. Design …

Background: To improve port productivity, safety, and sustainability, the use of information and communication … technology is being promoted as a smart port. The utilization of a terminal operation system (TOS) is important for advanced port … port management system in Japan. Results: Japanese TOSs are characterized by a lack of automated functions, such as ship …

identified dimensions are port infrastructure, the interconnection between various systems, the port organization model …

. All of them are an indispensable counterpart for its recognition and support. In case of port planning and management … than 40 variables, which have been classified as smart port studies in Spain. Then a network was generated using a non …-cyclic conducted grafo, which shows port variable relationships. As conclusion, economic variables are cause of the rest of categories …

sustainable port growth policies, through new or re-designed operational planning. As part of this, introducing new technologies … into port processes and ecosystems that factor in the environment, but have wider-reaching benefits, will enable a move … towards the port of the future. Although the expected consequences of a changed climate are one of the reasons behind actions …