system. Policies to further promote short sea shipping may be viewed as an important element on the road to the development … of East Mediterranean nations and the outlook for the coming decades, is that Short Sea Shipping may become the …

strengthening existing important activities such as the freight transport by sea between Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal. …

, ports and airports), the most common funding practices are commented, underlining their characteristics, limits and … agent itself. Conversely, highways, airports and ports are partially financed by fares under conditions of legal monopoly …

of livings. On the other hand, investment in airports and ports seems to be assigned under efficiency criteria, while it … should be recognized that investment in ports is related to geographical factors. Magnitudes of positive signs overpass that …

This paper aims to analyse the impact of port demand variability on the allocative efficiency of Spanish port … different approaches: error components approach and parametric approach. We model the variability of port demand from the … that port authorities have excess capacity and their resources are misallocated. Finally we establish that the allocative …