Over the last few years, liner and stevedoring markets have been facing new challenges. The progressive concentration on the demand side (carriers) and the emergence of global alliances in the mid-1990s have triggered a similar process of consolidation on the supply side (stevedores). In turn,...

Globalization, liberalization, competition and spatial interaction are significant factors affecting the transformation of manufacturing industries worldwide. In the transportation and logistics industry, however, cooperation is becoming even more critical than competition in determining firms'...

This article provides an analysis of the performance of a panel of Southern European ports. In contrast with previous research, a multi-step approach is followed. This methodology allows distinguishing between the role of both factors that are external and internal to the organisation of the...

<i> Crescita, commercio internazionale e accessibilità: Ucraina e Italia a confronto nel contesto mediterraneo </i> (di Enrico Musso, Marco Benacchio, Liliya Chernyavs’ka) - ABSTRACT: Questo lavoro si propone di condurre un confronto - nel contesto macroeconomico del bacino mediterraneo - fra...

This timely and comprehensive new Handbook brings together an unrivalled group of distinguished scholars and practitioners to provide in-depth analysis and a contemporary perspective on a wide-ranging array of topics in maritime economics.

This book revisits traditional evaluation methods, such as cost–benefit analysis, to try and find a balance between the ever-increasing demand for transport, the search for sustainable mobility and green transport solutions, and the limited financial resources that governments are able to...