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 …

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 …

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 …