The Maritime Economist Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 38

THEMARITIME Economist

FreshMINDS
The implementation of the Taman port project will
facilitate the process of diversion of Russian cargo out
of Ukrainian ports. It will also facilitate the introduction
of direct calls to Russian ports. This development can
even generate a cargo shift from Baltic gateway ports
to Black Sea gateways in view of reaching the Russian
hinterland, particularly since sailing from the East to
Taman port would require 12 sailing days less than

Kateryna Grushevska,
ITMMA (University of
Antwerp)

ME Mag

Kateryna Grushevska joined ITMMA of the
University of Antwerp in 2013 as a PhD student
under the BACKIS scholarship programme of
the European Commission. She holds a MSc in
Management from Odessa Maritime University
and MSc in Transport and Maritime Economics
from ITMMA. Her research activities at ITMMA
particularly focus on ports and logistics in the Black
Sea region.

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to Baltic ports. It is important to mention that 60% of
the Russian population is closer to the Black Sea than
to the Baltic Sea. During USSR times 70% of USSR
cargo was shipped via Black Sea ports (with Odessa
and Illichevsk now being part of Ukraine). It seems the
Black Sea ports, particularly Russian ports, will regain
their key position to accommodate Russian cargo.

Theo Notteboom, ITMMA (University of Antwerp)
Theo Notteboom holds a full-time position as
Foreign Expert / Professor at Dalian Maritime
University in China, part-time academic positions
at ITMMA - University of Antwerp and the
Antwerp Maritime Academy in Belgium and
visiting professorships at WMU/SMU in Shanghai
and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in
Singapore. Between October 2006 and October
2014 he was President of ITMMA of the University
of Antwerp. He is Emeritus President and Council
Member of International Association of Maritime
Economists (IAME). He has published widely on
port and maritime economics. He is Associate
Editor of the academic flagship journal Maritime
Policy & Management and a member of the
editorial boards of six other leading academic
journals in the field. He is co-director of
www.porteconomics.eu, a knowledge dissemination
platform on port studies.