Δείκτες συγκέντρωσης στη λιμενική αγορά των ε/κ της Μεσογείου (1998-2008)
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Abstract
In this thesis, after an overview of bibliography, are analyzed the trend and the evolution that took place within the last decades in the liner shipping industry as well as in the port industry that handling containers, i.e. the development of multimodal
transport and logistics, of hubs and the occurrence of horizontal and vertical integration. Then, the structure changes of the Mediterranean port industry are presented as well as the demand and supply analysis for the period 1998-2008. After the collection of data, concentration indexes, a) Concentration ratio, b) Herfindal- Hirschman index, c) Gini Coefficient and d) shift share analysis, are applied in order to identify the concentration level of the Mediterranean port industry in terms of ports for
the time period 1998-2008. The results which have been extracted with the appliance of the indexes in terms of ports shows a medium concentrated market and marginal decrease of concentration.