Many cities are located on rivers or coasts. This paper argues that such cities developed as transportation hubs or markets for interregional trade, since these locations provide better access (lower marginal transportation costs) to other regions. Local products are collected at such hubs, and...

The knowledge of the transport infrastructure is essential to define development strategies, especially in countries with continental dimensions like Brazil. Information about the spatial distribution of the economic agents and its commercial transactions allow the creation of specific regional...

The shift of the Indian economy to a higher trajectory of growth over the last two decades has been primarily associated with urbanisation and rapid motorisation both as a cause and as an effect. Motorised passenger transport is now being considered as a fulcrum for inclusive growth in India....

Currently the shipping companies have expanded managerial processes, and they began to be organized departments of logistics, marketing and information. They are based on management principles specific to their organization, but new concepts have emerged about time management and even that of...

Porter's theory supports the idea that, despite the globalization of production and trade, the competitive advantage is created in a national framework, nations, through their institutional, natural, cultural, economic characteristics ultimately determining the development of certain economic...

The paper presents the main causes of the sea accidents and disasters, which call for the implementation of a sea pollution and safety management system (SMS) in the navigation companies, for certification purposes, in compliance with the International Management Code for the safe vessel...

In general, the shipping industry, complies mostly to competition rules. The only exceptions are the technical cooperation agreements between line shipping companies that are grouped in consortiums or alliances. Although the maritime industry is perceived, overall, as a competitive market, some...

The level of R&D internationalization and innovation has been increasing in Europe since 1990. Growth in both external and internal activities indicate that the two of them complete each other and satisfy different needs, more than reciprocal substitution. The initiative of Innovation Union...

The transport activity and the commerce activity evolve in tandem. The commercial economic flows determine the flows of the transport activity and backwards. This study presents in a concise manner the evolution stages of these flows

An important analysis of the parameters of global competitiveness, in shipping industry, shows that there is a series of issues that can be reviewed and interpreted on the basis of new models. One of the models based on which we could analyze economic competitiveness is the transformational...