RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

MEL Contract Research

Research is one of MEL's core activities. Over the past years, MEL faculty have been involved in a great number of national and international research projects. The projects for the European Commission/TREN are examples where MEL effectively contributed to formulating shipping and port policies across Europe. In 2003 MEL acted as adviser to the European Commission/Competition Directorate in their re-evaluation of Regulation 4056/86 that exempts liner conferences from antitrust legislation. Since 1999, MEL edits the quarterly journal Maritime Economics & Logistics, published by Palgrave Macmillan. (formerly International Journal of Maritime Economics) An indicative list of MEL projects (or involvement therein) appears below:

  • EU: Green Paper on Ports and Maritime Infrastructure
  • EU: Towards a New Maritime Strategy
  • EU: Economic Impact Analysis of the Shipping Sector
  • EU: Empirical Estimation of Goods Imported through the Major European Gateways
  • EU: ATENCO: Analysis of the Cost Structure of the Main TEN Ports
  • EU-India Maritime Transport
  • ILO: Social and Labour Effects Caused by Structural Adjustments in the Port Industry
  • Dynamics in the Organisation of Ports
  • Institutional and Operational Modernisation of the Port of Piraeus, Greece
  • SETHAM: Study and Development of a Decision Support System for the Management of Coastal Shipping in Greece
  • REALISE - Regional Action for Logistical Integration of Shipping across Europe
  • Prognosis model for Maritime Labour Markets
  • Knowledge infrastructure in the maritime industry
  • Prospects for shipping in the Netherlands
  • Loan portfolio evaluation through scenario development
  • REEFER 2005 - Development of a new CA container
  • Round Table on Labour and Education in the Maritime Sector
  • Standardisation in the transportation with pallets
  • EU: ATENCO: Cost Structures of Trans-European Networks Ports
  • Development of Korea as a container hub in Asia
  • Quantification of Container Throughout in the Eem-Waalhaven area
  • Ownership structures, a tool to evaluation of the Dutch shipping policy