Competitività ed efficienza delle infrastrutture terminali del trasporto marittimo: analisi del sistema dei porti nel Mediterraneo e livello di integrazione logistica

Abstract

The choice processes of maritime terminals included in the networks have become, in recent times, a significant importance due to the general improvement of accessibility that has characterized most of the infrastructure. The high degree of interconnection of the terminals, achieved thanks to the logistics innovation processes, revealed other attributes of the terminal activity, other than the localisation of facilities, which may be decisive for the users. In this context, considerable importance have strategies adopted by operators of shipping terminals whose level of competitiveness and efficiency is the key element in the process of selection of ports. Therefore the organizational and functional complexity of most of the ports may prove extremely useful to the analysis of characteristics of terminal for its right collocation in the network.port, Mediterranean, logistics, value-chain