Shipping lines face various marketing risks, with outcomes that need to be mitigated. A
current, serious, example of this has been the COVID19 pandemic and the severe supply …

The bases for the internationalization of the port terminal industry are explored. While the
industry is being transformed by the penetration of transnational companies, there are …

Although there is widespread recognition of the potential of ports as logistics centres, widely
accepted performance measurements for such centres have yet to be developed. The …

This paper examines in which ways the changing organizational routines of shipping (ie,
alliance formation and vertical integration in container terminal operations) are affecting the …

Most of the literature on port choice has focused mostly on the views of carriers (and
indirectly of cargo owners). We venture here to discover whether the choice criteria used by …

In the last 30 years, environmental sustainability has been receiving increasing attention by
scholars and operators. All the seaport stakeholders, including port authorities (PAs), policy …

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the
users and providers of port services. A port works as an" engine" for economic development …

There are many studies on container port efficiency and that seek to understand what
factors, such as technical and scale efficiency, private versus public terminal management or …

The pricing of infrastructure, such as this of commercially competing ports, is one of the most
controversial aspects of the global economy of the 21 st century. The controversy arises from …

Port research is not a new field of interest for human geographers, evidenced by numerous
conceptual models and empirical cases of port evolution and development in the literature …