The aim of the paper is to inquire on how and why large liner shipping companies and international terminal operators have achieved power over Chinese ports. Liner shipping companies and large terminal operators are fighting for control over the extensive web of commercial relations that China...

This work aims to acquire greater knowledge on the structure of heterogeneous oligopoly in the superyacht production industry, and to investigate how the fierce competition mounted by newcomers who seek to beat down the price of superyachts can lead to problems for the large European, American...

The paper presents an analysis of the costs of shipping containers from four Chinese ports to representative central European destinations. It is demonstrated that the sum of costs by sea and costs over land, using both truck and rail transport, clearly favours the Italian ports, above all those...

The objective of this study is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the logistics system of the Province of Leghorn, through the evaluation of its commercial ports, of Leghorn Interport (Guasticce), of its ports for pleasure (marinas and other), depending on their current state and, than,...

The necessity for firms working in the inter-modal transportation to become bigger is described in the paper as a strategic lever to the success of SSS anywhere and in the Mediterranean as well. Big firms as well as hybrid forms (joint ventures or strategic alliances, etc.) have the capacity and...

- The paper deals with maritime transport systems between the European islands and the continental mainland according to the concepts of Short Sea Shipping, SSS, and Sea Motorways, SM, in Europe. - It is pointed out that the European Commission explicitly took these connections into...

The aims of this study are: to demonstrate the importance of national and international sector of recreational boating and in particular of pleasure shipyards, to underline the difficulties in all the world and above all in Italy, to present some possible suggestions in order to get over the crisis.