Since the 1995 Barcelona Conference, the Mediterranean has acquired an increasingly important role in the political strategies of the European Union and in countries bordering on the Mediterranean; at the same time, it has assumed a primary function in the expansion of maritime transport. The...

The tendency towards consolidation of the liner shipping companies requires the development of the 'hub and spokes' model in the Mediterranean as well. In this framework, we argue that the network model will be reinforced as compared to the 'point to point' model. However, only a few studies are...

The Mediterranean ports, and Italian ports in particular, both the hub and commercial ports, have experienced pronounced growth favored by: 1) world growth in volume of containers; 2) greater inflow/outflow of containers pertaining to the area extending from Bavaria to Hungary; 3) time savings...

The object of this paper is to explore the attractiveness of Mediterranean ports and their potential activity as gateway-terminals and hub ports, particularly in terms of the wealth of the surrounding regions. There is recognition that: - the liner shipping market has acquired a truly global...

There is world-wide race among terminal operating Companies or large shipping Companies to corner commercial ports and hub ports.The aim is: 1- to build up merger policies, 2- to avoid being dependent on the performance of a single port location, 3- to acquire hub and commercial strategic...

Networks, mergers and economies of scale, three aspects of the same strategy, which concerns the thrust towards oligopolistic concentration by Liner Shipping Companies engaged in the maritime container transport. Correlated with this process, attention has focused on evolution in transport...

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...