ECONSHIP 2011

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European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism & Ports – ECONSHIP 2011

“Maritime Transport: Opportunities and Threats in the post-crises world”

Chios, Greece, 22-24 June 2011; www.econship2011.gr

ECONSHIP 2011 invites researchers with an interest in shipping, transport, and trade to submit papers and participate in the European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism & Ports – ECONSHIP 2011 stimulating discussions on the theme of  “Maritime Transport: Opportunities and Threats in the post-crises world”.

To facilitate intellectual exchange and contribute to the advancement of knowledge the International Scientific Committee of ECONSHIP 2011 is looking forward to receiving:

  • Papers covering relevant empirical, theoretical and methodological aspects – Abstracts of (at maximum) 300 words to be submitted by 10 December 2010.
  • Panel proposals that might refer to special sessions by invitation only, or to an open call that aims to bring together leading, emerging and new maritime and transport scholars – besides panel chairs, proposals need to contain an abstract of (at maximum) 300 words and be submitted by 10 December 2010.

The Organising Team:

ECONSHIP 2011 is organised by the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport (STT) – University of the Aegean, a multidisciplinary team that includes internationally active maritime economists, transport researchers and a wide and multidisciplinary research spectrum.

Where:

ECONSHIP 2011 will be held on the island of Chios, in Greece. The island offers a unique traditional maritime environment in the heart of the Aegean Sea. This is one among the so-called ‘maritime islands’ due to the origin of one of the largest local pool of ship-owners and seamen, and Greece’s trademark for all too long.

Key Dates

Abstracts (Papers and Panel proposals) due 10 December 2010
Notification of acceptance of Abstracts & Panel Proposals 10 January 2011
Deadline for submission of Full Papers 20 February 2011
Refereed papers returned to authors for revision 20 April 2011
Deadline for submission of Final Papers 20 May 2011
Registration due 30 May 2011

– Special Industry Sessions will provide key insights of the latest developments in the field –

more information at the conference website:

www.econship2011.gr  

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The Port of Haydarpaşa, also known as the Port of Haidar Pasha (Turkish: Haydarpaşa Limanı) is a general cargo seaport, ro-ro and container terminal, situated in Haydarpaşa, Istanbul at the southern entrance to the Bosphorus. The port is operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and serves a hinterland which includes the country’s most industrialized areas.

It is the biggest container port in the Marmara Region and with an annual cargo volume exceeding six million metric tons (MT), is Turkey’s third biggest port after Mersin and Izmir.

The Haydarpaşa Terminal or Haydarpaşa Station (Turkish: Haydarpaşa Garı) is a major intercity rail station and transportation hub in İstanbul. It is the busiest rail terminal in Turkey and the Middle East and one of the busiest in Eastern Europe. The terminal also has connections to İETT bus and ferry service. The Moda Tramway is a few blocks south of the station. The station has a main building (opened in 1909) that houses the headquarters of District 1.

Haydarpaşa Terminal is the western terminus of the Istanbul-Ankara Main Line and was the western terminus of the former Baghdad Railway (İstanbul-Konya-Adana-Aleppo-Baghdad) and the Hedjaz Railway (İstanbul-Konya-Adana-Aleppo-Damascus-Amman-Medina). The tracks do not cross the Bosphorus, but there is a train ferry, that carries rail cars from Haydarpaşa, on the Asian side, to Sirkeci, on the European side.

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I am currently busy with establishing a consortium to prepare a project proposal for the following FP7 call:

TPT.2011.2-3. Modelling of co-modality quick-wins: Roadmap towards comodality

Content and scope

Current socio-economic trends and challenges in various fields (climate change, oil and energy, pollution and health, decongestion of transport, population ageing, etc.) call for accelerated uptake of technological advances in the transport industry. This relates to transports modes considered individually, but even more importantly, to technical achievements in the field of inter/co-modal integration, particularly between high capacity and usually long-distance modes (road, railways, air, waterborne) with local/urban modes.

In order to quickly unlock the value of technological advances, joint business drivers and synergies must be the force behind their adoption by all the stakeholders in the transport chains. The purpose of this activity is hence to analyse, identify and model, from economic, managerial, operational and technological viewpoints, specific opportunities for inter/co-modal transport, both for passengers and goods, that show evident unaddressed needs, value add opportunities, or new business models, based on R&D achievements as well as on the analysis of socio-economic trends.

The activity should identify the major thresholds for inter/co-modal transport and present
roadmaps to overcome these thresholds and that are endorsed by the different ETPs active in Transport. The roadmaps should point out and describe the required integration of R&D results and activities as well as policy options, so that the different stakeholders can materialize the identified quick-wins in concrete technology development and integration roadmaps and take the necessary actions to bring inter/co-modality further.


Expected impact

This research will contribute to new or improved services to customers (either passengers or SMEs and big enterprises) and to identify ways to improve transport efficiency, sustainability and costs.

Funding scheme: Collaborative Projects – small or medium-scale focused research projects; or Coordination and Support Actions aiming at supporting research activities

Note: Limits on the EU financial contribution apply. These are implemented strictly as formal eligibility criteria. You must refer to the call fiche for details of these limits


Open in call: FP7-TRANSPORT (TPT)-2011-RTD-1