2014 Meeting

12th Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) Workshop
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, in Norfolk, Virginia

Meeting Coordinator and Chair: Mary R. Brooks, Dalhousie University
Meeting Address: Marriott Waterside Hotel, Hampton Ballroom II

Audience participation is expected in all sessions. The purpose of the meetings is to frame new research and seek concepts for its funding and development. The Norfolk meeting will focus on what future research the Network should undertake and how it will be managed beyond 2014. Therefore, the after-lunch portion of the program will be open only to members as of June 1.

Structure of the one-day workshop

In the morning, PPRN members will report on current research strands and future plans. Attendees will have a roundtable discussion of what progress has been made, or on methods of analysis or methodologies would be appropriate for the future work of the team. Teams to continue research will be adjusted where appropriate.

After a working lunch, Network Members will meet to explore next steps in the research agenda of the Network. This portion of the meeting will only be open to Network Members. We will finish earlier than usual to allow time for the IAME Council meeting in the same room.

(Download the final agenda – PDF 134 KB)

9:00 AM: Welcome and structure of the day’s work (Mary R. Brooks)

9:05-9:45 AM: Session 1—Measuring Port Performance: Current Programs and Extensions
Moderator: Thanos Pallis

• Mary Brooks and Tony Schellinck: The development of SEAPORT as a tool for evaluating port services in North America
  
• Nina Malone (Vice President, Business Analysis and Strategy, VPA): How Virginia Port Authority used its results from the AAPA 2012 Port Customer Service Initiative (15 minutes)

9:45-10:30 AM: Session 2—Future Research Concepts and New Indicators to be Explored–1
Moderator: Mary R. Brooks

• Gordon Wilmsmeier (with Mary and Tony): Port effectiveness performance criteria in South America: a Delphi study using SEAPORT; Plans for unrolling SEAPORT in South America (see The development of SEAPORT above)
  
• Tony Schellinck: Measuring value of port services to shipping lines (there is a paper on this on the main IAME program); How can this be extended?  [PDF 295 KB]
• Gordon Wilmsmeier: Developing benchmarks for energy efficiency in South American terminals [PDF 6.3 MB]

10:30-10:45 AM: Coffee Break

10:45-12:40: Session 3—Future Research Concepts, Group Updates and New Indicators to be Explored–2
Moderator: Thanos Pallis

• New: Michael Dooms: Socio-economic performance indicators for ports: Solving the growing paradox within the port stakeholder community; How do we measure the quality of port-city relationships? [PDF 522 KB]
• New: Michele Acciaro (with Gordon): The RTBM special issue on Measuring Energy Efficiency in Shipping and Ports with proposed publication in late 2015/early 2016 (5 minutes)
• Continuing: Climate change impacts on ports (Adolf Ng and Peggy Chen, 5 minutes)
• Continuing: Portopia: An update (Michael Dooms) [PDF 9.9 MB]
  
• Continuing: Strategies of port authorities (next steps) (Larissa van der Lugt and Francesco Parola) [PDF 141 KB]
  
• Continuing: Research on cruise ports (Thanos Pallis and Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 5 minutes)
• Continuing: AAPA 2014 port services quality program (Mary R. Brooks, 5 minutes)

Open Discussion – Audience participation is expected.

12:40-13:15: Working Lunch (provided by PortEconomics). Open discussion continues at 13:00.

13:15-14:00 PM: Port Network Planning
Closed discussion (network members only) on the next steps for the Network.

Name tags and name plates are provided courtesy of Dalhousie University.