This paper analyses shipping finance’s characteristics and trends in Italy, with particular reference to the economy of southern regions. This study, starting from an historical analysis, focuses on the following points of interest: national analysis of the maritime economy, with particular reference to the South and to the opportunities for growth and competitiveness in the Mediterranean Area; analysis of the tools and features of project finance and banking products available to the Italian companies in this sector; case histories of companies operating in the current competitive environment; comparison with international financial system.

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This paper aims to analyze the current and past situation of container maritime sector in Southern Italy, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of transhipment. This phenomenon can be considered as a valid indicator of ports evolution dynamics and of their organization. The analysis of transhipment and its tendency from mid-90s until today reveals: signs of distortion between supply and demand; consequent reorganization of the container liner services by shipping companies: phenomena of concentration of traffic on specific ports or clusters. On the basis of the above considerations, this analysis is accompanied by a careful study of strategic dynamics which have taken place within the container maritime sector, at global level. Subsequently, it has to be done a quantitative research phase, followed by a qualitative one, in which are collected and processed traffic data for the main container ports in the Mediterranean, taking as reference the last two decades. The ultimate goal is to develop a model that analyzing and anticipating the future dynamics of the maritime routes that cross the Mediterranean, with a particular focus on transhipment, defining the role of the main ports of transhipment hubs of Southern Italy.

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In the attempt to capture the emissions of the total transport chain, the reduction of carbon footprint in ports and at terminals was the principal goal of the EU-funded project “Green and effective operations at terminals and in ports (GREEN EFFORTS)” concluded in June 2014. As the carbon footprint is directly related to energy-efficiency, which is easier to sell to the industry, this was advanced into the project focus. The project results are briefly described referring to yard lighting, standby consumption of ship-to-shore cranes, energy management, yard operation and standardization. Particulate matter emission as a serious threat to human health is not a contributor to the carbon footprint but has been included to advocate a combined approach to reduce all industrial emissions and to improve air quality.

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Jacobs University Bremen, Head of Workgroup Maritime Logistics.

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The present paper aims at analysing the port development plans of the main Italian southern and central ports in order to identify the growth paths in relation to their competitiveness level. This last aspect is discussed through two different analysis: a Shift Share Analysis and a Network Analysis. While the former one aims at comparing the growing rates in specific market segments (i.e. ro-ro), among specific ports and the macro-region, the latter one provides some centrality indexes in order to understand the relative position of each nodes belonging to the maritime network. The paper ends with some policy prescriptions that could improve the current competitive position of the ports competing in the ro-ro market.

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This paper (English and Italian version)  analyses the Italian maritime trade with the rest of the world and especially with the Med area. The analyses contains a focus entitled “Italian regions: the importance of maritime transport for exports”. With this research SRM has attended the XVI Conference of the SIET (Italian Association of Transport Economics and Logistics), that was held in Florence from 8th to 10th October 2014.

This paper (in English and Italian version) intends to analyse the competition in the context with which the Italian port system operates, with reference to Northern Europe, Med Europe, Northern Africa and the East Med hubs. With this research SRM has attended the XVI Conference of the SIET (Italian Association of Transport Economics and Logistics), that was held in Florence from 8th to 10th October 2014.

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.