This research (English and Italian version) is extracted from the Annual Report “Italian Maritime Economy. New routes for growth” and is written by Oliviero Baccelli and Lanfranco Senn, CERTeT, Transport and Tourism Economics, Bocconi University, Milan. The research describes the development of naval gigantism that is leading to the development of new port and commercial arrangements at an international level; the increasingly pre-eminent role of alliances on the main routes is the shipping companies’ response to the demand for lower prices and greater capability of the service, but this will clearly lead to the marginalisation of port infrastructures that are not ready to seize these giant carriers or have enough space available to store (and maybe process) containers. This article gives an account of all this by identifying the most important aspects and the changes currently taking place.

This research (English and Italian version) is extracted from the Annual Report “Italian Maritime Economy. New routes for growth” and is written by Ennio Forte, Full Professor in Transport Economics and Logistics at the University of Naples “Federico II”. The research describes the role of the Short Sea Shipping (SSS) in the transition from a Eurocentric model to a Euro-Mediterranean one. In fact, the scenario for maritime flow has shifted its center; within the framework of flows that effect the Mediterranean, the SSS are more influential in the choice of a dominant co-modal maritime routes in the modalland-sea exchange in order to achieve lower logistics cost.

SRM presents a new research dedicated to Italy’s logistics assets, drawing a 360 degree analysis of the sector, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses, the risks and opportunities at play. The aim of this new study is to define four “pillars” for the development of logistics, a solid and necessary platform from which to boost the sector’s takeoff in Italy.
To achieve this aim, the project identifies the most important obstacles that are holding back the sector, examines possible strategies to relaunch investments in infrastructure, outlines potential growth horizons in terms of countries and territories, and stigmatises errors which must not be repeated in future cohesion policies.

Book + Appendix (Italian language).

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Synthesis Report (September 2013)

This report provides a synthesis of main findings from the OECD Port-Cities Programme, created in 2010 in order to assess the impact of ports on their cities and provide policy recommendations to increase the positive impacts of ports on their cities. This Programme was directed by Olaf Merk, Administrator Port-Cities within the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate. The synthesis report is based on findings from a series of OECD Port-Cities case studies. Such case studies were conducted for Le Havre/Rouen/Paris/Caen (France), Hamburg (Germany), Helsinki (Finland), Marseille (France), Mersin (Turkey), Rotterdam/Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Antofagasta (Chile), Bratislava/Komárno/Štúrova (Slovak Republic), Durban (South Africa) and Shanghai (China). The OECD Port-Cities Programme also benefited from visits to the following ports and port-cities and discussion with port-related actors in the following port-cities: Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Singapore, Casablanca, Venice, Trieste, Genoa, Valparaíso, Varna, Gdansk, Koper, Vienna, Antwerp, Felixstowe, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Sydney and Newcastle (Australia).

The report in the English version can be downloaded for free.
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This paper (Italian language) will show that maritime transport is a dynamic sector, a business that over time has attracted investments also from abroad; it has a historical value and has resisted, and is still resisting, not without difficulty, to the crisis, by consistently seeking new paths and solutions to offer increasingly fast and efficient connections.
This paper’s aim is therefore to analyse the role played by maritime transport as a competitiveness-building factor, its importance for the economy, and its growth prospects. With the support of data and statistics, the paper will highlight the value of the sector at the international level, in terms of the country system as well as of individual regional territories, by means of case studies.

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