Supporting port professionals, businesses and communities in the transition to a Circular and Low Carbon Economy
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Themes
Get started on circular ports
Port Performance
The quest for performance measurement has always been a key issue for ports. Port managers need to organise complex processes efficiently and effectively to find the best ways of delivering value to their customers and addressing stakeholder concerns.
Port Integration
Ports have great potential for circular management resources. Yet their capacity depends on infrastructure and networks. By looking at how ports are integrated into their context, it is possible to identify where ports can play a role in the larger circular economy.
Completing the picture
Until now, we have tackled climate change primarily by switching to renewable energy. We are decarbonising at speed, partly to become more self-sufficient in an ever changing global system.
We need to be reminded that the energy transition will only solve half of the climate problem. It’s like we’ve only read half the book, or seen half the movie.
So what completes the picture? Changing the way we use materials and manage land. This is where circularity comes in.
It is more than energy. It is about flipping our current take-make-waste economic model on its head to one where we eliminate, circulate and regenerate.
Source: Ellen McArthur Foundation
Tracks
Doing the doable
Circular Port Monitor
How to develop a proper framework and process towards a mature monitoring system for the circular economy in port ecosystems.
Circular Ship Design
How can we make ships more modular and flexible in changing times, and ensure that a circular ship with more circular material choices can compete with the current financing models for traditional ships?
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Endorsers
Theo Notteboom is Professor of Port and Maritime Economics. He is Chair Professor ‘North Sea Port’ at Maritime Institute of Ghent University, and a Professor at Faculty of Business and Economics of University of Antwerp and Antwerp Maritime Academy. He previously held positions as professor and foreign expert at universities in Dalian and Shanghai, China, and as MPA visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is Vice-President (2022-ongoing) and past President (2010-2014) of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME). He is co-founder and co-director of Porteconomics.eu and member of the Risk and Resilience Committee of International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH). He published widely on ports and maritime economics and is co-author of the handbook ‘Port Economics, management and policy (Notteboom, Pallis & Rodrigue, 2022; Routledge). He is one of the most cited maritime economists in the world. Theo Notteboom has been involved as promoter or co-promoter in more than 100 academic research programs on the port and maritime industry and logistics topics.
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Theo Notteboom
Professor of Port and Maritime Economics
Ports are stepping stones towards a circular economy. However, the path ports follow is often covered with uncertainty, challenges, and lack of clarity. The Circular Ports initiative of Circular Flanders offers a much-needed holistic view of the wide array of issues at play for CE in ports. By combining research insights and best practices, it offers a unique insight into what CE means for the strategy, governance, and operations of ports.