EU documents:
- Single Market Act II, together for new growth COM(2012)573, http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/smact/docs/single-market-act2_en.pdf
- White Paper on Transport: roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system COM/2011/144
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/strategies/2011_white_paper_en.htm - European Ports Conference, September 2012, , See website of the conference: http://www.portsconference2012.eu/home.html
- Eurostat, Ports Statistics, http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Maritime_transport_of_goods_-_quarterly_data
- European Court of Auditors: Performance Audit of ports funded by the Structural Funds 2000-2006,
http://eca.europa.eu/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/14050737.PDF - European Parliament, Port studies (2012)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/tran/studiesdownload.html?file=66171
Academic studies (the following list provides a limited number of representative studies):
- Port Economics, port studies database: www.porteconomics.eu
- Christidis, Ibanez Rivas, Measuring road congestion, JRC Technical Notes, 2012 /
- CE Delft, INFRAS, Frauenhofer ISI, External Costs of Transport in Europe, Delft, November 2011.
- Ducruet and van der Horst (2009) "Transport Integration at European Ports: measuring the role and position of intermediaries".
- Goss, R. Economic Policies and Seaports: 1. The Economic Functions of Seaports. “Maritime Policy and Management” 17(3): pp.207-219. (1990).
- International Handbook of Maritime Economics, Cullinane and others (2010)
- ISL Bremen – Public Funding of Port Infrastructures in the EU – Fact Finding Study (2006)
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/maritime/studies/doc/2006_06_eu_seaports_study.pdf - “Port Financing and Pricing in the EU: Theory, Politics and Reality and Haralambides H. (2012) "Ports: Engines of Growth and Employment".
- UK Essays - Role of port pricing (2005),
http://www.ukessays.com/essays/geography/port-pricing.php#ixzz2Ef5PGRiQ - Port Pricing. Considerations on Economic Principles and Marginal Costs; H. Meersman, E. Van de Voorde and T. Vanelslander (Antwerp, 2002)
- Bichou (2012) Linking theory with practice in port performance and benchmarking, International Journal of Ocean Systems Management 2012
- Dock labour and port-related employment, T. Notteboom, 2010
- Combining Models and Commodity Chain; Research for Making Long-Term Projections of Port Throughput: an Application to the Hamburg-Le Havre RangeDe Langen, van Meijeren, and Tavaszzy (2012)
http://www.ejtir.tudelft.nl/issues/2012_03/pdf/2012_03_03.pdf - Research on congestion; EFFORT RTD Project http://www.transport-research.info/web/projects/project_details.cfm?ID=28076
- Pallis & Verhoeven (2009) "Does the EU port policy strategy encompass proximity?"
Reports for international organisations and industry associations:
- ESPO (2010) Report "European Port Governance"
http://www.espo.be/images/stories/Publications/studies_reports_surveys/espofactfindingreport2010.pdf #. - 2012-2013 Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-competitiveness-report-2012-2013 - International Transport Forum “The Extent of and Outlook for Congestion, in Inland, Maritime and Air Transport (2007)
http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/sofia/pdf/KeyMessages/ITF200701e.pdf - OECD "Competition in Ports and Port Services 2011
http://www.oecd.org/regreform/liberalisationandcompetitioninterventioninregulatedsectors/48837794.pdf - OECD report, A framework for investment policy transparency (2003),
http://www.oecd.org/daf/internationalinvestment/investmentpolicy/16793978.pdf - OECD (2008) Policy Instruments to limit negative environmental impacts from increased international transport.
http://www.oecd.org/env/transportandenvironment/41612575.pdf - OECD (2012) papers on "The Competitiveness of Global Port Cities"
http://www.idcdockworkers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid = - Port Procedures Survey, FONASBA, December 2012, http://www.fonasba.com/author/fonasba_admin
- "Ports urge European leaders not to cut in Transport Infrastructure budget" http://www.espo.be/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=356:ports-urge-european-leaders-not-to-cut-in-transport-infrastructure-budget&catid=34:espo-news&Itemid=109 (February 2013)
- World Bank "The Evolution of Ports in a competitive world, 2007", ,
http://www.ppiaf.org/sites/ppiaf.org/files/documents/toolkits/Portoolkit/Toolkit/pdf/modules/02_TOOLKIT_Module2.pdf – - http://www.ppiaf.org/sites/ppiaf.org/files/documents/toolkits/Portoolkit/Toolkit/index.html
- World Bank “Connecting to Compete 2012 – Trade Logistics in the Global Economy http://siteresources.worldbank.org/TRADE/Resources/239070-1336654966193/LPI_2012_final.pdf