Program

Two-day International Conference

CRITICAL ISSUES IN THE PORT AND MARITIME SECTOR

WCTRS - Special Interest Group 2

7-8 May 2009

With the kind support of:

Department of Transport & Regional Economics / Research Center on Commodity Flows

Port of Antwerp Authority

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Thursday 7 May

8 – 9hrs

Registration of participants - Hof van Liere

9 - 9.30hrs

Official opening

 

Welcoming speech: Gust Blauwens

 

Kris Peeters, Minister-President of Flanders

9.30 - 11hrs

Port competition and planning

 

Session Chair: Siri Standenes

 

Port competition modeling including maritime, port and hinterland characteristics

 

Barry Zondag – Significane, Pietro Bucci – Significance, Padideh Gützkow – NEA,  

Gerard de Jong – Significance/NEA/ITS Leeds

 

A Model of Spatial Port Competition

 

Jo Reynaerts

 

Secondary ports and deep sea services : an empirical investigation

 

Gambet Douet

 

The role of congestion in port competition

 

Hilde Meersman, Eddy Van de Voorde and Thierry Vanelslander

 

Future Scenarios: Implications for Port Planning

 

P. Taneja, H. Ligteringen, W.E. Walker, M.van Schuylenburg, R.van der Plas

 

Competing for port hinterlands: The Portugese Logistic Plan

 

Rosário Macário

11 - 11.15hrs

Coffee break

11.15 - 12.30hrs

Sustainability in ports and maritime

 

Session Chair: Hilde Meersman

 

Keynote lecture: The present crisis of shipping: containers and bulk carriers - Impacts on ports and ship agents

 

Umberto Masucci

  A Study on Key Technology of Large Stage Amplitude of Variation Port in Three Gorge Reservoir Region

 

Xinping Yan - Zhirong Tan

 

Sustainable port development in the Netherlands

Framework for an integrated approach

 

Dr. S. Dekker, J.B. Hartman M.Sc. and H.J.W. Postma M.Sc.

 

Port sector sustainability reporting: the case of the port of Genoa

 

Claudio Ferrari, Elena Morchio, Simona Sanguineti

12.30 - 14hrs

Walking Lunch

14 - 16hrs

Port hinterland connections

 

Session Chair: Rosário Macário

 

ROLLING HIGHWAY: A multimodal transport service to

reduce the congestion problems on the road accessibility to the ports

 

Stefano Carrese, Carmine Del Riccio, Nicola Giannitelli,Luigi Tatarelli

 

Leadership and tools: the Challenge for Port Authorities

 

Trevor Heaver

 

Aligning barge and terminal operations by means of a

Multi-Agent system

 

A.M. Douma P.C. Schuur J.M.J. Schutten

 

When is ‘Short Sea Shipping’ an alternative to land transport?

 

Francesca Medda - Lourdes Trujillo

 

Inland shipping, the steel industry, and the energy sector:

an empirical study of inter-dependencies in selected

Western European countries

 

Norbert Kriedel

 

Improving handling of container barges in the
port of Rotterdam
: Can we learn from past initiatives

and other ports? 

 

Martijn van der Horst  - Rob Konings

 

METROCARGO :  an innovative system for inter-

modal  freight transport in villages and ports

 

Fabio Tarantino

16 - 16.15hrs

Coffee break

16.15 – 18hrs

Shipbuilding and ship demolition trends

Port efficiency

 

Session Chair: Alfonso Morvillo

Session Chair: Eddy Van de Voorde

 

Implementation of an asymmetric stern in general

marine craft

Ship-to-Shore Gantry Crane Simulator Design: Crane Operator Performance Analysis and Assessment Tool

 

Gonzalo Azqueta

Agostino G. Bruzzone1 , Paolo Fadda , Gianfranco

Fancello, Enrico Bocca1, Gianmarco D'Errico, Alberto Tremori1

 

The impacts of technical changes on the economic

performance of dry bulk vessels

Measuring the relative efficiency of European ports: the role of regulation and onther non discretionary factors. A multi-step approach

 

Shun Chen*, Koos Frouws, and Eddy Van de Voorde

Angela Stefania Bergantino,  Enrico Musso

 

Ship demolition: a sensitive market

Organisational effectiveness at seaports: a systems approach

 

Vougios Spyros

Cimen Karatas, A. Güldem Cerit

 

Economies of Scale in Mega containerships at a Port

Authority level

Efficiency measurements in container terminal operations

 

Giulia Arduino, David Guillermo Carrillo Murillo

Qianwen Liu - Francesca Medda

 

Impact of mega containerships on European ports:

a multicriteria analysis

Approximations for Operating Performances of  Ship-To-Shore Cranes in Container Terminals

 

Monica Grosso ,Paresa Markianidou

Zoran Radmilović, Vladislav Maraš

 

Ship size limitations at the port entrance

( Klaipeda port case study)

Port Performance: Measuring Port Users Perspectives

 

Vytautas Paulauskas

Athanasios A. Pallis &  Thomas K. Vitsounis

 

 

Performance and vulnerability of seaports: a study based on worldwide containerships’ movements, 1996-2006

 

 

César Ducruet

18hrs - 19hrs

Panel

20hrs

Conference Dinner

 

Friday 8 May

9 - 11hrs

Port organization

 

Session Chair: Enrico Musso

 

A review of port authority functions: towards a renaissance?

 

Patrick Verhoeven

 

Maritime supply chains optimization and its impact on

seaport management and administration systems – challenges

for European ports

 

Maciej Matczak

 

Societal costs and benefits of cooperation between port

authorities

 

Pauline Wortelboer-van Donselaar Joost Kolkman

 

The development of port authorities’ strategies

 

Larissa Van der Lugt

 

Santos port expansion: public and private investments

partnerships

 

Léo Tadeu Robles and Luciana Cardoso Guerise

 

Activities, resources and inter-organisational relationships:

key factors in the Port competitiveness

 

De Martino Marcella and Morvillo Alfonso

11 - 11.15hrs

Coffee break

11.15 - 12.30hrs

Maritime policy

Shipping Safety

 

Session Chair: Trevor Heaver

Session Chair: Rosário Macário

 

The Blueprint of Malaysian Maritime Industry Policy

Approaching Maritime Safety. Charterers Role in Quality Shipping

 

Mohamad Rosni Othman

Giannis Fasoulis

 

Maritime World Cities: From which cities operate the

maritime decision makers?

On the Problems of Implementing CLC PORT 1992 in Iran and Persian Gulf

 

Ann Verhetsel and Steve Sel

A.S. Nooramin , A. Harati Mokhtari

 

Regional Effects of Port Infrastructure: A spatial CGE

Approach

Space as mediator between SEA and Ports

 

Eduardo A. Haddad, Geoffrey J.D., Hewing Fernando,

S. Perobelli Raul, A.C.dos Santo

Thomas Vanoutrive

 

Container and terminal shipping industry from a banking

perspective (2008-2015)

 

 

Olivier Podevins

 

 

Impact of recent financial crisis on ship breaking industry,

issues and challenges: Case study Alang ship breaking yard-

Gujarat, India

 

 

Prakash Gaur

 

12.30 – 14hrs

Lunch

14 -15hrs

Shipping business issues

Port operational issues

 

Session Chair: Marisa Valleri

Session Chair: Thierry Vanelslander

 

The economics of shipping lines’ groups: performances

and trends

EFFORTS: Service Oriented Architecture for Interoperable Port Systems

 

Ferrari C., Parola F., Avegno I.

Pål Baltzersen, Marianne Hagaseth, Beate Kvamstad, Sven Mathes

 

Towards a Consistent Maritime Trade Simulation

A Comparative Analysis of Port Cargo Flow Structures: A Focus on Japan and China

 

Jeroen Pruyn

Hidekazu Ito

 

Assessing the degree of competition in the container

liner shipping industry

A logistics approach to the value of land in ports

 

Christa Sys

Theo Notteboom - Christophe Theys

 

Fixtures-Based Freight Rate Indices, and Their Impact

on Freight Rate Modeling in the Shipping Industry

 

 

Veenstra, Van Dalen

 

15hrs

Closing reception

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