The Future of Maritime trade in 2020 and the implications for the port of Amsterdam

Team Members:

1. Maria Marcos
2. Mirjam Terhorst
3. Andreas Schuil
4. Eduard de Visser
5. David Verberne

Driving forces:

New Driving forces:

1. Piracy
   
2. Containerization
   
3. Maritime Transportation security
   
4. Consumer’s responsibility CO2 footprint
   
5. Consumer/customer demands regarding speed of service/delivery
   
6. Improvement through inventions
   
7. Technical Innovation in the supply chain
   
8. International Trade of goods
   
9. The cost of freight shipping
   
10. Building ‘green’
    
11. Increase of Marine Pollution
    

Existing driving forces:

1. Influence of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
   
2. Increasing Use of e-Commerce
   
3. Global Warming
   
4. The increasing globalization of markets‎
   

Research Questions:

• How have shipping rates developed as per the recession?
• What’s the difference between deep sea and short-sea shipping?
• What are the current other (competing) methods of small vessel shipping transport (i.e. short-sea shipping)?
• What currency dominates what shipping market?
• What is the SEEMP?
• How is maritime trade developing over the last decades?
• What is the impact of containerization?
• What are the main ports in Europe?
• What are ship size developments?
• What are security issues in maritime trade?
• What is RFID?
• What is the trend of world imports and its forecast?
• What is the trend of world exports and its forecast?
• What is the trend of the industrial production of advance economies?
• What is the trend of the world consumer prices?
• What is TEU?
• What are the top European container ports?
• What are the top European liquid bulk ports?

• On what criteria is a port selected?
• What are the effects of the financial crisis on the world trade in 2009?
• What developments in Port performance can we observe?

22. How does the Logistics supply chain look like?

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