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MEL, RSM and Deloitte & Touche Develop Maritime
E-Learning Kit for the World Bank
The Center for
Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL) is jointly developing a E-learning
toolkit for the World Bank with Deloitte & Touche and the Rotterdam
School of Management. It will enable students to increase their knowledge
on maritime economics and logistics topics through long distance
E-learning. The contents of this E-Learning package will be developed by
MEL and RSM, while Deloitte & Touche's expertise will be used to
convert the modules into an E-learning environment.
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Admiral
E.E. Mitropoulos, new Secretary General of IMO, Delivers Keynote
Salutation for MEL Graduation
In his salutation, the new Secretary General
of IMO stressed the international recognition of Erasmus University, the
century-long tradition of the Netherlands (and Rotterdam) in maritime
affairs and the potential of MEL graduates as guarantors of safer shipping
and cleaner oceans.
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New
MEL Course on Maritime Logistics
In 2003, MEL, in cooperation with P&O
Nedlloyd, ECT and Cap Gemini, introduced a new Core Course in Maritime
Logistics. The course has become an instant success, with requests for
delivery by many countries. The course takes a balanced view on ocean
transportation, terminal management and information technologies and thus
puts ‘Global Logistics Management’ in the perspective of the Global
Economy.
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Shipping
Finance and Risk Management
MEL’s strong partnership with DVB Bank
continued for the second year. The Bank’s full management team, headed
by Dagfinn Lunde, paraded from the MEL classroom, offering unrivalled
state-of-the-art management and research expertise in the area of shipping
finance and risk management. Internally, the course is coordinated by Drs
S.D. Tsolakis, MEL’s upcoming guru in financial econometrics in
shipping.
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Martin
Stopford talks to MEL
For the first time in 2003, Dr. Martin
Stopford, author of the bestselling book ‘Maritime Economics’, and
Managing Director of Clarkson, addressed MEL students on his top area of
expertise, i.e. Bulk Shipping Cycles. A packed classroom included MEL
students, staff, consultants and business guests.
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Fotis
Karamitsos visits MEL
Mr. Karamitsos, Director for Shipping and
Ports at the European Commission, gave a thorough overview of the shipping
market and the Commission’s agenda in this, focusing on the
‘post-Prestige aspects of maritime safety’.
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Willem
Scholten in the MEL Classroom
The Chairman of the Port of Rotterdam
challenged MEL students with the new role of the world’s largest port
after corporatisation. His voice was loud and clear to all: the
significance of the Port of Rotterdam goes far beyond the city that hosts
it, or even the Netherlands: Rotterdam is ‘The Port of Europe’ and
policy makers should see it as such, allowing it the necessary autonomy to
achieve what is expected of it.
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MEL
Executive Education in Panama
From 29 September to 8 October, MEL trained
key staff of the Panama Canal Authority in advanced maritime economics and
logistics. This training is part of our Executive Programme and was
customized specifically to give the delegates the latest insights in
maritime knowledge and applications. The MEL team also involved
participation from ECT (Mr. Ulco Bottema), one of our Corporate Network
partners. The ECT staff highlighted terminal operations and design issues
during the course.
At the
end of the course, MEL staff gave presentations on "traffic flow
forecasting" and "optimum containership sizes", at a
conference organised by the Panama Canal Authority.
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MEL
Research Report for European Commission
The Center for Maritime Economics and
Logistics (MEL) signed a prestigious contract with the Competition
Directorate of the European Commission to advise the EC on its
reassessment of Regulation 4056/86. The Regulation exempts liner shipping
conferences from the antitrust laws of the Union. The project is led by
Prof.dr. H.E. Haralambides while onboard the project wrtr also Dr. A.W.
Veenstra (FBK/MEL); Prof.dr. William Sjostrom (National University of
Ireland); Prof.dr. Michael Fusillo (New York University); Drs Chantal
Cheung Tam He (MEL Manager); and Dr. Ullrich Hautau (MEL).
The
resulting report concluded that no convincing new arguments are brought
forward for either the preservation or the abolition of the liner
conference system. Therefore, the current regulatory regime should be
upheld.
The
European Commission has not made a formal statement on this issue, but a
hearing took place on the 4th of December for all parties involved to
discuss the matter.
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Professor
Roberto Mariano visits MEL
In September, Professor Mariano (ex Wharton,
University of Pennsylvania) Dean of the School of Economics and Social
Sciences, Singapore Management University (SMU), visited MEL for
discussions on cooperation in research and education. SMU has recently
established a Visiting Professorship in Maritime Business Economics,
funded by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, in an effort to
boost research and education in this area in Singapore.
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Start
of MEL Class of 2004
The MEL Class of 2004 has started with the
induction course on Tuesday the 4th of November 2003. The induction
course is given over a period of six intensive weeks in the
November-December period and includes refresher courses in (among others)
basic micro- and macroeconomics, business statistics and econometrics,
introduction to finance and computer skills.
The
new MEL class has 52 students, representing 19 different nationalities.
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MEL
Graduation Class of 2003
On Wednesday, October 29th 2003,
the Class of 2003 of the MSc. in Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL)
received their degrees from keynote speakers Mr. Richard Pearson
(president, Europe Container Terminals BV) and Mr. Willem Scholten
(chairman of the executive board, Rotterdam Municipal Port Management). A
total of 30 graduates from 17 different countries graduated. The Award for
Student Excellence (sponsored by NOL-APL) was shared by two graduates this
year: Mr. Alexandros Andreoulis (Greece) and Ms. Mari Kallinen (Finland).
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Peter
Swift, Managing Director of Intertanko, visits MEL
Mr. Swift, accompanied by Intertanko’s
legal adviser, Jonathan Benner, confronted MEL students with the
challenges facing the tanker industry as a result of the imminent
introduction of legislation on double hull tankers.
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In July, for the 3rd year, MEL
trained the Management Trainees of NOL/APL in Shipping Management and
Logistics Management. The MEL team that flew to Singapore consisted of
Prof.dr. H.E. Haralambides, Prof.dr. R. Dekker, Mr. S. Tsolakis and Mr.
Eric Porras. The NOL/APL Class of 2000 will receive their Masters Degree
in November 2004.
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Braemar
Seascope and BIMCO join forces
Braemar Seascope (Colin Cridland) and BIMCO
(Jan Lafranca) joined forces in June for the delivery of a Professional
Development Course (PDC) to MEL students, in Chartering and Market
Analysis.
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IAME adopts MEL
as an official journal
The International Association of Maritime
Economists (IAME) has adopted Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL) –a
quarterly scientific journal published by Palgrave Macmillan- as one of
its official journals. MEL was launched by Erasmus in 1999 and since then
it is one of the leading sources for quality scientific research in
Maritime Economics and Logistics, and main source of reference for MEL
students.
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MEL
visits Scandinavia
In July, and for the 12th year in
a row, MEL staff delivered classes on Risk Management at IMO’s World
Maritime University in Malmoe, Sweden. In October, for the second year,
MEL gave classes on Port Pricing at the Norwegian School of Economics and
Business Administration, Bergen, Norway.
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Mike
Fusillo researches at MEL
Dr. Mike Fusillo, Director/Journal of
Commerce-PIERS, spent time at MEL, hosted by the Rotterdam School of
Management, joined the MEL team on research for the European Commission on
liner shipping conferences and the imminent review of Council Regulation
4056/86.
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ECT
and MEL speaking at the Marine Terminal Capacity seminar
On 24 September Ulco Bottema of ECT (Europe
Container Terminals, one of the MEL Corporate Network members) and Martin
Ilmer of the Center of Maritime Economics and Logistics jointly spoke at
the Marine Terminal Capacity seminar in London organised by Lloyd's List
Events. During this event, attended by professionals active in the
container terminal and marine consultancy industry, the latest
developments in marine terminal issues were presented and discussed. The
topics addressed by above mentioned speakers were optimization in berth
and stacking yard productivity and strategies to minimize equipment
downtime.
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Dr.
Hautau Speech in Poland
On 5 September 2003, Dr. Ullrich Hautau gave
a speech entitled: “EU Ports Policy – Perspectives of the Baltic
Ports” at the “7th International Oder-Colloquium 2003” in
Szczecin, Poland. The conference was
organised by the German-Polish association “Verein zur Förderung des
Oderstromgebietes e.V” in co-operation with the “Authority of Szczecin
and Swinoujscie Seaports”.
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IAME
Conference hosts MEL papers
On 3 to 5 September 2003, the International Association of Maritime
Economics (IAME) held their Annual Conference and General Meeting in Busan,
Korea. MEL was represented by Research Director dr. A.W. Veenstra,
and Assistant Academic Director drs. S.D. Tsolakis.
Dr.
Veenstra presented the papers titled "Economic Analysis of a
Container Terminal Simulation" and "Integration & Efficiency
of Bulk Shipping Markets". Mr. Tsolakis presented papers titled
"Modeling the Freight rate Market- An Error Correction Model
Approach" and "Integration & Efficiency of Bulk Shipping
Markets".
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MEL
Attendance at TOC2003 Europe
On 10-12 June, 2003, a large delegation of MEL Class of 2003 attended
the 27th TOC shipping, ports and terminals conference in
Europe, held in Genoa. The conference’s key topics were “managing
capacity and optimising performance”. Sessions focused on security,
carriers’ terminal strategies, terminal automation and control, and
Mediterranean port and shipping dynamics.
MEL
students attended all sessions, presentations and debates, and were
instructed to write summaries on these events. These summaries were then
used to draft a full overview of the conference, which has been included
in the Conference Proceedings CD-ROM.
Overall,
MEL attendance at the TOC conference was a large success, in that it
confronted MEL students directly with the shipping industry's practices
and challenges.
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Brostella
Exhibition in Rotterdam
MEL 2002 Alumnus and Class Representative
Mr. Raul Brostella of Panama briefly returned to Rotterdam this year for
the art exhibition by his wife, Mrs. Joanna Brostella. Over the period May
3rd – June 14th 2003,
her paintings were featured in the art gallery “Galerie Kralingen”.
On May 3rd, the exhibition was officially opened by the
Ambassador of Panama in the Netherlands, His Excellency Mr. Rolando A.
Guevara Alvarado.
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MEL
students participate in IO Sports Day
On Saturday, March 8th 2003, the
Center for Maritime Economics & Logistics participated in the
International Education Sports Day, an annual sports event
for international students in the Netherlands. MEL was represented
by four student/staff teams. In the end, the Center for MEL attained 8th
place in the final standings.
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