The authors examine a mixed duopoly market with Cournot or Bertrand competition between a purely private port (port 1) and a partial public port (port 2). Considering both horizontal and vertical differentiation between the two ports, they analytically derive the welfare effect of privatization...

The authors examine a mixed duopoly market with Cournot or Bertrand competition between a purely private port (port 1) and a partial public port (port 2). Considering both horizontal and vertical differentiation between the two ports, they analytically derive the welfare effect of privatization...

Port container trucking is currently one of the most challenging aspects of the love-hate relationship between ports and cities. This paper highlights important examples of emerging good practices at and around the marine port terminal. Hinterland connectivity and landside productivity are...

With cruise activities continuing to grow, the cruise world and related decision makers take initiatives aiming to handle the produced externalities. Among the key environmental issues is the handling of the various wastes produced on cruise ships. In recent times, cruise lines and ports have...

Free ports are a form of territorial exceptionalism that has existed for centuries and become an important paradigm of globalization. In the contemporary setting, they act as transportation, logistics and trade platforms, using their territorial exceptionalism as a competitive advantage. Free...

This study aimed to determine the readiness level of the studied seaport’ managers for Establishment of Total Quality management (hereinafter referred to as TQM). Thus because all of the ports are of trading kind so they are considered as a servicing organization and due to optimizing the...

Cruise tourism generates different types of cruise consumption and related indirect, direct and induced expenditure effects, in homeports as well as in ports of call. Cruise passengers’ expenditures produce positive economic effects for destinations, from increasing the incomes and employment,...

There is an ongoing debate on the concentration of container throughput in the European container port system. A particular feature is the dominant position of ports located in the Hamburg-Le Havre range. Some proponents of southern European ports argue that a shift in port traffic from the...

Ports and networks: strategies -- Port definition, concepts and the role of ports in supply chains; setting the scene / Michiel Nijdam and Martijn van der Horst -- Ports and global supply chains / Rob zuidwijk -- How ports create strategic value for their country / Frans A.J. van den Bosch, Rick...

This paper presents a 3x3 general equilibrium model of an OLGeconomy with technological uncertainty, heterogeneous agents and quasi-homothetic preferences to analyze structural change between the real and the financial sector as well as within the financial sector. Besides the consumption and...

Die Kammerunion Elbe/Oder ist ein grenzüberschreitender Zusammenschluss aus Wirtschaftskammern und Verbänden zur Stärkung der ökonomischen Leistungsfähigkeit der beteiligten Regionen. In dieser Union kooperieren 17 deutsche, 7 polnische und 10 tschechische Industrie- und Handelskammern...