This paper studies the impact of port activity on regional employment, analysing approximately 560 western European regions, including the largest OECD European ports (116 ports), from 2000-06. The empirical analysis is based on a set of employment equations using the Blundell and Bond (1998)...

This paper studies the impact of port activity on regional employment, analysing approximately 560 western European regions, including the largest OECD European ports (116 ports), from 2000-06. The empirical analysis is based on a set of employment equations using the Blundell and Bond (1998)...

This paper analyses the impact of port activities on local development for a sample of 621 TL-3 regions located in thirteen European countries and observed over the period 1998–2009. Using a spatial panel econometric framework which controls for spatial fixed effects, the paper provides an...

Italian ports handled approximately 460 million tonnes of cargo in 2012 according to the last statistical report of the Italian Association of Port Authorities1 (Assoporti, 2014). This is more or less the same amount as the port of Rotterdam alone. The cargo handled at the port of Antwerp –...

Scopo principale del lavoro è delineare i possibili futuri scenari del settore del trasporto marittimo di linea, con le necessarie implicazioni sulla logistica, con riferimento al bacino del Mediterraneo, descrivendone le ripercussioni sull’assetto portuale italiano. In particolare,...

La presente ricerca si propone di analizzare il sistema delle autostrade del mare in Italia con particolare attenzione alle criticità presenti nei nodi marittimi italiani. Le autostrade del mare rappresentano uno strumento introdotto in sede europea per cercare di ridurre il traffico su strada,...

The major aim of the paper is to analyse how growing awareness of environmental impact determined by trade activities can influence maritime transport and how it can facilitate changes in the current structure of maritime routes. In particular, the study compares the emissions concerning two...