The “Maritime Indicators Campania” report is drawn up by SRM and Unione Industriali di Napoli. This publication intends to offer an interpretative key to dynamics and the phenomena that characterize the sea economy of the Campania region (Southern Italy). This report is divided in two sections. The first part contains a statistical analysis based on 3 groups of parameters: international trade relations, competitiveness, companies’ analysis. Of course, the analysis pays particular attention to the Port of Naples. The second part summarizes the findings from a focus group conducted with companies of the sector operating in Campania.

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This pubblication is the second issue of “Maritime Indicators”, an half-yearly report with analyses of the economy of the sea, at the international level, in Italy, and in the regions of Southern Italy (the “Mezzogiorno”). The parameters selected are aimed at analysing year-on-year trends in maritime transport from the economic, infrastructural, and business points of view. The indicators are grouped into five categories: Economic Trend, International Trade Relations, Competitiveness, Company Analyses and, lastly, Focus on the Mezzogiorno. Leaf through the report

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SRM in collaboration with SOS-Log, interviewed Alberto Rosotto, Business Development & Accounts Manager of SKF Logistics Services Italy, a major international player in industrial logistics operating in 40 sectors. This interview focuses on logistics and especially on logistics sustainability.

Container ships have grown bigger at a rapid pace over the last decades, faster than any other ship type. In one decade, the average capacity of a container ship has doubled. The largest container ship at this moment can carry 19,200 TEU, but ships with capacity of more than 21,000 TEUs have been ordered and will be operational in 2017. This development raises important questions: what are the impacts to the whole transport chain – and are these impacts still positive? Larger container ships have generated cost savings for carriers, decreased maritime transport costs and as such facilitated global trade in the past. However, larger ships require adaptations of infrastructure, equipment and cause larger peaks in container traffic in ports, which have increased the total transport costs. The OECD/ITF just released a report, entitled “The Impact of Mega-Ships” that attempts to answer these questions. It assesses if the benefits of the current mega container ships still outweigh their costs to the whole transport chain. This article gives highlights from the report.

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This interview was released during the scientific mission carried out by SRM in Hamburg in order to have a better understanding of the strategies and problems affecting the maritime sector of Germany, which is considered one of the top European country as for maritime logistics. In particular, we interviewed Dennis Kögeböhn (DK), Partner at EMBA shipping & Logistics, HPC – Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH, who gave an “itinerant” interview in the HHLA terminal of Hamburg port providing valuable information about its structure and functioning.

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The aim of this research is to deepen, through analysis of benchmarks and best practices, the role of public policy in supporting intermodal rail to and from the ports aimed at raising their competitiveness and at mitigating the environmental externalities that affect the relationship between the port and the city, in Green port logic. The core of this work is focused on the cases of Italy, Spain, France and Slovenia in order to identify the organizational and trade aspects of direct investment promoted by the public sector and aimed at promoting intermodal rail transportation to and from the ports within the North Western Mediterranean. Leaf through the book

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In 2015, SRM carried out a scientific mission in Hamburg with the aim of gaining a better knowledge of the strategies and the issues regarding the maritime sector in a country like Germany, which is considered one of the top European countries as for maritime logistics. During the mission, SRM interviewed Bengt van Beuningen, Head of Communication & Information, Port of Hamburg Marketing Regd. Assn.