Port Management brings together a collection of seminal papers from Palgrave's journal, Maritime Economics and Logistics. It is a dynamic volume, containing contributions from leading authors with different disciplinary backgrounds, representing a vast regional diversity. The volume provides authoritative and timely investigations into key topics in port economics, including research on: global supply chains, port networks, choice modelling, port infrastructure, competition, port pricing, efficiency in European seaports, and an analysis of Chinese container ports.
It is essential reading for port professionals, policy makers, scholars, and researchers interested in port economics.
Author(s): Hercules E. Haralambides
Series: Palgrave Readers in Economics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: xviii+368
1. Containerisation, Box Logistics and Global Supply Chains: The Integration of Ports and Liner Shipping Networks; Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Theo Notteboom
2. A New Approach to Port Choice Modelling; Mateus Magala and Adrian Sammons
3. Coordination in Hinterland Transport Chains: A Major Challenge for the Seaport Community; Martijn R Van Der Horst and Peter W De Langen
4. The Efficiency of European Container Terminals and Implications for Supply Chain Management; Teng-Fei Wang and Kevin Cullinane
5. An Alternative Approach to Efficiency Measurement of Seaports; Ro-Kyung Park and Prabir De
6. An Application of AHP on Transhipment Port Selection: A Global Perspective; T C Lirn, H A Thanopoulou, M J Beynon and A K C Beresford
7. A Competitive Analysis of Chinese Container Ports Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process; Dong-Wook Song and Gi-Tae Yeo
8. Port Infrastructure: An Access Model for the Essential Facility; Lincoln Flor and Enzo Defilippi
9. Competition, Excess Capacity, and the Pricing of Port Infrastructure; Hercules Haralambides
10. Efficiency in European Seaports with DEA: Evidence from Greece and Portugal; Carlos Pestana Barros and Manolis Athanassiou
11. Governance in Seaport Clusters; Peter De Langen
12. The ISPS Code and the Cost Of Port Compliance: An Initial Logistics and Supply Chain Framework for Port Security Assessment and Management; Khalid Bichou
13. Concession Agreements and Market Entry in the Container Terminal Industry; Athanasios A Pallis, Theo E Notteboom and Peter W De Langen
14. The Size Economies and Network Efficiency; Sidney Gilman
15. An Optimization Model for the Inland Repositioning of Empty Containers; Alessandro Olivo, Massimo Di Francesco and Paola Zuddas
