European Journal of Maritime Research

Electric Vehicle Import/Export Flows in Maritime Ports: Are Local Stakeholders Monitoring their Arrival?

Charles Henri Fredouet — 2024-11-11

Within the global climate change risk mitigation frame, automotive OEMs are progressively replacing ICE-powered cars with electric vehicles in their model ranges. This strategic move is deeply impacting every level of their supply chains, including maritime ports. To shed some light, in the absence of relevant academic literature, on how closely local stakeholders are monitoring this evolution, multiple port authorities’ and logistic service providers’ institutional websites, as well as auto industry-related web sources, have been browsed (Q4 2023), looking for comments on the arrival of electric vehicles in North American and European auto ports. Study shows that contexts differ from one region to another, even from one port/one stakeholder group to another, leading to various attitudes ranging from spontaneous early movers to hyper-cautious followers.

Basic Study for Grasping the Human Gaze Movement of a Remoting-Ship Operator

Kenichi Kitamura — 2024-07-10

Our research focuses on understanding the disparity in risk perception when operating maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) between onboard and through screens. In our initial step, we conducted experiments using a ship simulator, involving 4 students aspiring to be navigators. They navigated through screens and participated in debriefing sessions. Human gaze movement was utilized to ascertain the ability to comprehend navigational risks solely through observation. Simultaneously, salivary alpha-amylase samples were taken to verify their accurate risk cognition. The key finding indicates that human gaze movement aids in precisely understanding navigational risks, suggesting the feasibility of future ship operations through screens. Our research targets navigators crucial in global logistics, aiming to enhance safety in remote ship operations by demonstrating that risk cognition is achievable through human gaze movement. This breakthrough is vital for the evolving realm of MASS operations.

Cruise Port Market Positioning: Making the Case for Including Societal and Environmental Risk Mitigation Strategies

Charles H. Fredouet — 2023-12-28

Port Authorities (PAs) are now paying growing attention to the social and environmental risks stemming from their cruise activities. Several of these ports are engaged in a structured and for some already long-standing, approach to reducing the negative externalities of cruise ship calls. However, the content analysis of 36 Port Authorities’ websites showed that very few of them report on such action plans. Based on the review of the literature dealing with PAs’ market positioning approaches, the purpose of this paper is to promote the opportunity and feasibility for PAs to disseminate information about their past, ongoing, and/or future actions supporting sustainable cruise tourism.

Identifying Maritime Ports’ Investment Drivers: The Case of French Local and Regional Ports

Charles H. Fredouet — 2023-02-20

Ports play an essential role in the production and distribution processes of companies, as well as in the organizations set up by logistics and transportation service providers. But ports are also likely to have to contribute to the development of the territories they are part of. This paper aims at knowing more about how this double challenge impacts the investments made by local and regional ports. To this end, seventeen individual websites and three collective websites of French ports have been surveyed. Results show that the sampled ports and groups of ports have for the most part properly adjusted both to the constraints posed by the public authorities and to the needs and expectations of their current and potential customers.

Evaluation of the Relationship between Maritime Piracy and Port Revenue

John F. Ojutalyo — 2023-04-23

The study investigated the relationship between maritime piracy and sea robbery on revenue generated in the Nigerian ports between 1995 and 2013. The study used secondary data sourced from the Nigerian ports authority, and the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) on the port revenue, levels of pirate attacks against ships in local; and global waters, level of cargo pilferages in ports and used for the study. It used multiple regression analysis method to analyze the dataset obtained using port revenue as the dependent variable while global attacks, local attacks and volume of cargo pilfered were used as independent variables. It was found that there is significant relationship between port revenue generated in the Nigerian ports and level of maritime piracy and sea robbery against ships in Nigeria waters. The result indicates that for every unit increase in pirate attacks against ships trading in global waters, revenue generated in the Nigerian ports increased by 60872.47 units. Similarly, for each unit increase in local attacks against ships in Nigerian waters, the revenue generated in the ports increased by 548297.8 units and for a unit increase in level of insecurity induced cargo pilferage in the seaports, port revenue decreases by 562,96 units. It was also found that this is a significant relationship between revenue generated in the ports and maritime piracy and sea robbery against ships in the maritime industry.