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Cause and effect
| 题名： | Cause and effect |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | FRANK LENNOX-MILLARD |
| 摘要： | When it comes to the main drivers that steer port investments, Guy Haesevoets, client director, Corporate Banking Ports Practice at BNP Paribas Fortis, opined three factors: capacity, in the terminal but also to the hinterland, the modal shift, and sustainability - the reduction of carbon emissions through renewable energy and digitalization - meaning better use of data to improve efficiency. "These drivers are of course strongly geographically linked," he said. "The investment drivers in the Le Havre-Hamburg range will be different from West Africa or Asia. In Northern Europe, focus will be clearly on ESG and digitalization and automation along the supply chain." Christa Sys, BNP Paribas Fortis chair on Transport, Logistics, and Ports at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics, University of Antwerp, added that investments by public authorities will remain crucial, "Private players will always follow and never be in the lead here, they sometimes get directly involved through PPPs, but always with a big public covering of main risks." Sys sees the relationship between trade growth and transport infrastructure spending as: "Demographic growth followed by trade growth influences maritime trade, which again influences potential port throughput/port infrastructure, affecting effective port throughput, meaning the competitive position of a port determines which part of maritime traffic it can attract at present as well as in the future." |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Ports & harbors |
| 卷： | 66 |
| 期： | 5 |
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