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You may have heard of the "The Rat Pack," which originated in the late 1940s as a group of Hollywood show business friends, who met regularly at the Los Angeles home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The group built itself a reputation in the 1960s under the leadership of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr, who appeared together on stage and in films. The serious research field of port economics has its own "rat pack." It is the group of scholars behind PortE-conomics, a web-based initiative aimed at generating knowledge about seaports. The uncontested leaders of the pack are Theo Notteboom, Athanasios (Thanos) Pallis, and Jean-Paul Rodrigue, who have cooperated in the field of port-related academic and contract research for more than two decades. |