The increase in the maritime traffic which transits through the Suez Canal, strongly connected with the last few decades shift of the economic axis from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has significantly re-launched the nodal functions of the Mediterranean sea and the role of its ports. The paper will show that this new significance of the Mediterranean and its transit functions is very much the product of precise strategies conducted by the major global container transport companies which have invested directly in the definition and development of new lines and in the modernization of container terminals. However, the paper also highlights that the role of the Mediterranean ports, and of the Italian ones in particular, is also strongly connected to their capacity to improve their competitive stance with respect to the Northern European ports and to reduce competition among each others in favour of the establishment of strong collaborative relationships.
L’incremento di traffico attraverso il canale di Suez, in corrispondenza con l’ascesa economica dei paesi dell’Oriente Asiatico, ha significativamente rilanciato le funzioni di transito del Mediterraneo ed il ruolo dei suoi porti. Il presente lavoro mette in evidenza come questa nuova importanza del Mediterraneo e delle sue funzioni di transito siano frutto di precise strategie di sviluppo e di competizione attuate dai principali leader mondiali del trasporto container e della gestione dei terminali. Questi hanno, infatti, investito direttamente in molti scali decretandone lo sviluppo dei traffici. Il lavoro mette, inoltre, in evidenza come il ruolo dei porti mediterranei e di quelli italiani, in particolare, dipenda notevolmente dalla capacità di migliorare la propria competitività rispetto ai porti del Nord-Europa e di ridurre le dinamiche competitive interne in favore della costruzione di forti rapporti di collaborazione.
Il Ruolo Strategico del Canale di Suez e le Prospettive della Portualità Mediterranea
RUGGIERO, LUCA
2010-01-01
Abstract
The increase in the maritime traffic which transits through the Suez Canal, strongly connected with the last few decades shift of the economic axis from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has significantly re-launched the nodal functions of the Mediterranean sea and the role of its ports. The paper will show that this new significance of the Mediterranean and its transit functions is very much the product of precise strategies conducted by the major global container transport companies which have invested directly in the definition and development of new lines and in the modernization of container terminals. However, the paper also highlights that the role of the Mediterranean ports, and of the Italian ones in particular, is also strongly connected to their capacity to improve their competitive stance with respect to the Northern European ports and to reduce competition among each others in favour of the establishment of strong collaborative relationships.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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