The port industry has witnessed a multiplication of port co-operation and integration schemes in recent years partly driven by governance reforms, public policy, political forces and market pressures. PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom, Francesco Parola and Geraldine Knatz  co-edit a themed volume in the academic journal  Research in Transportation Management and Business, including some major contributions on port co-operation.

The edited volume contains a guest editorial and 13 full papers specifically focusing on port co-operation schemes, strategies and policies, with a specific emphasis on managing bodies of ports or port authorities as a unit of analysis:

  1. Port co-operation: types, drivers and impediments, Theo Notteboom, Geraldine Knatz, Francesco Parola
  2. Planning and concession management under port co-operation schemes: A multiple case study of Italian port mergers, Marco Ferretti, Francesco Parola, Marcello Risitano, Iolanda Vitiello
  3. PNW Seaport Alliance: Stakeholder’s benefits of port cooperation, Tay Yoshitani
    Analysis of the case of port co-operation and integration in Liaoning (China), Shanhua Wu, Zhongzhen Yang
  4. Port mergers: Why not Los Angeles and Long Beach?, Geraldine Knatz
  5. Being left at the altar: A content analysis of the Ports of Houston and Galveston merger case that never happened, Cassia Bomer Galvao, Amir Gharehgozli, Joan Mileski
  6. Realities and challenges of port alliance in Japan – Ports of Kobe and Osaka, Satoshi Inoue
  7. Port governance and cooperation: The case of Japan, Masato Shinohara, Takehiko Saika
  8. Recent development of Chinese port cooperation strategies, Weiwei Huo, Wei Zhang, Peggy Shu-Ling Chen
  9. A game theoretical approach to the effects of port objective orientation and service differentiation on port authorities’ willingness to cooperate, Han Cui, Theo Notteboom
  10. Competition and cooperation for intermodal container transhipment: A network optimization approach, Ziaul Haque Munim, Hercules Haralambides
  11. Competition vs. cooperation between neighbouring ports: A case study in Chile, Lourdes Trujillo, Javier Campos, Ivone Perez
  12. Port cooperation in the North Adriatic ports, Kristijan Stamatovic, Peter de Langen, Ales Groznik
  13. Trucking regulation as a critical chain asset in port complexes, Peter Hall, Thomas O’Brien

Next to theoretical/ conceptual contributions, the volume contains a range of papers dealing with successful and failed port co-operation schemes and plans from around the world. By accessing RTBM Volume 22 webpage you might download all port studies for free.

 

Source: PortEconomics