Survey: maritime SMEs also like collaborations

Cooperation between different ports in Flanders remains a complex topic. Joost Hintjens, lecturer in business economics and logistics at AP Hogeschool (at the back of the photo), has been conducting research on the subject for several years, asking mainly SME players in the Belgian maritime sector how they see cooperation between ports. The paper “Cooperation between port authorities from a 2 port user perspective: the case of the Flanders 3 Port Area” is one of the first publications to let these smaller players have their say. The findings come from interviews that small teams of Hintjens’ students conducted with business leaders in Antwerp, Ghent and Zeebrugge.