The Development of Deep and Short Sea Shipping Container Routes Departing from Italian Ports
| Autor: | Alessandro Farina, Antonio Pratelli, Marino Lupi, Luca Seminara |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Italian ports
deep seashipping DSS short sea shipping SSS container routes container traffic Short Sea Shipping Process Chemistry and Technology Italian ports Deep Sea Shipping DSS Short Sea Shipping SSS container routes container traffic Ocean Engineering Transportation Deep Sea Shipping Container (abstract data type) Short sea shipping Environmental science Water Science and Technology Marine engineering |
| Zdroj: | NAŠE MORE : znanstveni časopis za more i pomorstvo Volume 68 Issue 2 |
| ISSN: | 0469-6255 1848-6320 |
| Popis: | In this paper, an analysis of the development of Deep Sea Shipping (DSS) and Short Sea Shipping (SSS) container routes calling at Italian ports, is carried out. Data about DSS routes have been collected in the years: 2011, 2014, 2018 and 2019, while data about SSS services have been collected in 2010 and 2018. Italian ports have been classified as follows: Ligurian multi-port gateway cluster, formed by Leghorn, La Spezia, Genoa, Savona/Vado Ligure; Northern Adriatic multi-port gateway cluster, made up of Ancona, Ravenna, Venice and Trieste; Campanian multi-port gateway cluster, composed of Naples and Salerno; hub ports, i.e. Gioia Tauro, Cagliari (only until 2018) and Taranto (only until 2014). The most important gateway cluster, for both DSS and SSS services, is the Ligurian one, which includes Genoa, the major Italian container gateway port. Genoa has shown an almost constant increase in container traffic in the time period analyzed. Italian hub ports are also an important group, but they have registered a negative trend in the years under analysis. DSS routes, to Far East and the American Continent, usually call at the Ligurian ports and the hub port of Gioia Tauro. Northern Adriatic ports are crossed by only a few DSS routes, but they are crossed by a large number of SSS routes, especially feeder ones, with transshipment mainly in the hub ports of Gioia Tauro, Marsaxlokk, Piraeus and Port Said. The evolution of DSS services shows clearly the effects of naval gigantism phenomenon: the number of DSS services has decreased, but the total and, especially, the average DWT have increased. As regards SSS routes, also their frequencies have decreased, but their length and, in particular, the number of ports called, have increased: this choice is performed by container operators in order to increase the ships ’load factor’. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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