combines empirical analysis of microeconomic shipping and port data with three case studies of choice of port (focusing on … exploration of the three interdependent dimensions of trade connectivity: maritime networks, port efficiency, and hinterland … Spain, Egypt, and Morocco) and five case studies on hinterland development (Barcelona; Malta; Marseilles; Port Said East …

Currently, the shipping industry is at a crossroads. Although it has overcome numerous technological barriers and … and draws attention to the road that the industry players need to cover to decarbonise the shipping industry. Innovative … feasible solutions. Within this regulatory environment, the shipping industry also had to deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic …

costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent. (Bad ports are …, which are one of the components of shipping costs. We try to explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are ….S. markets than import tariffs. We investigate the determinants of shipping costs to the U.S. with a large database of more than …

Background, the context and purpose of the study: The current Editorial addresses the evolutionary path of the shipping … solutions and further claims that wrong decisions will have severe impacts on the finances of the shipping companies and the … presented at the 2019 World of Shipping Portugal, an International Research Conference on Maritime Affairs, 21-22 November 2019 …

stemming from near-port shipping activities, the handling of the goods in the ports and from the distribution of the goods to …, the Netherlands; Port Metro Vancouver, Canada; and Busan, Korea. The book provides examples of the environmental problems … related to port activities (such as air pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases, water pollution, noise, spread of …