It has been given an important role in development policies and urban regeneration to the accessibility and to the renewed interest in the growth of trade routes in the Mediterranean Sea, concurrently with the development of cruise tourism and the awareness about the necessary implementation of green policies. Lately, in this context, a strategic role has been played by Apulian ports (Bari, Brindisi and Taranto) which have tried to adopt the principles of environmental sustainability and have allowed firms to exercise significant leadership functions by implementing a good interaction, although it isn’t complete yet, between port system and economic system, through the authorities and the local political institutions. The goal to be undertaken is the consideration of accessibility in Apulia which, as it’s known, doesn’t concern only the presence of natural factors. Therefore, for a proper economic and social development, we can’t ignore the observation and analysis of the environmental and cultural reality in which systems identified are included, because it helps to un-derstand if there are favorable conditions in the environment or impediments to its development.

This report aims to analyze the influence of the so called “alliances” of container shipping companies, at global level, and their related impacts on the Italian port system and in particular on the maritime economy of the Mezzogiorno. In specific, the study will consider the full container liner services that have called the Italian ports before the entry into the scene of the two main alliances 2M and O3, on the global maritime market, and will be compared with the new services that are active from February 2015. These data allow to conduct a deep and structured study on a very timely topic: the adaptation of the physical and management structures of the Italian ports to the new types of ships. The so-called Vessel Sharing Agreements (VSA) have been and are still a strategic instrument adopted by major worldwide carriers in order to optimize the use of vessels and simultaneously reducing transport costs of the principal world routes.

This short report – edited by Federpesca – describes the fisheries sector in Europe and in the Mediterranean. The analysis pays attention to the Italian market and focus on the capture and aquaculture production.

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SRM presents the first issue of a report which deals with the economic sentiment of Italian shipping agents and aims at monitoring the dynamics of competitiveness and the economic expectations of the sector. In this issue attention is cast on some central economic themes which are a point from which one could start again to conjecture a future growth in the maritime sector: innovation and competitiveness.

Speech by Michele Acciaro from Kühne Logistics University (KLU) of Hamburg given at the conference organized by Federagenti on 16th December 2015 in Rome: “The Giants’ limit: how long will the size of container ships continue to grow? For Italy a market of opportunities and variables is taking shape and this will dictate radical logistics choices”.

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The “Maritime Indicators Puglia” intends to offer an interpretative key to dynamics and the phenomena that characterize the sea economy of the Puglia region (Southern Italy). This report is divided in three sections: international trade relations, competitiveness, companies’ analysis. Of course, the analysis pays particular attention to the Port of Taranto.

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The second Annual Report identifies the three drivers that could be the turning points on which to invest from now on: 1) the infrastructural integration, the so-called intermodality; 2) the attraction of foreign investment for which the establishment of Free Zones can be a decisive factor; 3) a renewed need for a change in conceiving logistics; not just as a mere sector to revive but as a development factor for competitiveness that must be high on Italy’s agenda. More in detail the Report is divided in two parts: the first part concerns the current situation and prospects of Italian maritime economy in the competitive environment of the Mediterranean, focusing also on the strategic role that the South can play so that our country can seize the development opportunities offered by the Blue Economy. The second monographic part is an analysis of the Northern and the Southern Range. The Report SRM has enriched this study, full of Italian and foreign prestigious collaborations, with field research carried out in Hamburg, Suez and Tangier, where a team of researchers were on a mission to understand the ongoing phenomena. Leaf through the book

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