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Dear students, faculty and friends:
Please join us next Friday, October 21st for our second CTL Distinguished Speaker Series event of the semester. Professors Hilde Meersman and Eddy Van de Voorde from the University of Antwerp will be discussing a new perspective on structuring port competition.
Event details are below:
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring Professors Hilde Meersman and Eddy Van de Voorde

Topic: A new approach to structuring port competition

Date: Friday, October 21st, 2011

Location: W20-306, Twenty Chimneys
Stratton Student Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 12:00
Lecture begins at 12:15 pm

More information on the Speaker Series can be found at the CTL website: http://ctl.mit.edu/distinguished-speakers^{Image Removed}

We look forward to seeing you there!

Janet & Veronica

Abstract

Port competition gets increased attention in the transport economics literature and policy. This is due not only to the large volumes of goods involved in port throughput – a direct measure of a port’s competitive strength – but also to derived effects in terms of employment and investment. In the past scientists and policy makers tended to regard ports as rather homogeneous entities. In practice, it is increasingly apparent that ports are far from homogeneous environments.

Competition not only unfolds between ports, but primarily between individual production companies and service providers located in those ports or making use of them, and increasingly also between entire supply chains. The success of a port will not only depend upon its own cost and pricing strategies, but also upon the success of the chain to which it belongs.

This lecture deals with a new way of structuring port competition, including a detailed screening of competition-affecting variables. Additionally the potential consequences for the future research agenda will be treated.

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Veronica Hannan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MCP/MST Dual Degree Candidate | 2013
e. vhannan@mit.edu | p. 504.912.6591