Keyword: maritime@TSE

The results of the 2023 barometer clearly show intensified inflation and the resulting increased interest rate, as well as other international and Finnish economic slowdowns. After two positive years, the barometer for 2023 is clearly negative as a whole. For the year 2024, the barometer, on the other hand, expects a positive development. The annual shipping industry barometer was prepared by the research group of the University of Turku School of Economics under the leadership of assistant professor Tomi Solakivi.

The Maritime@TSE research platform of Turku School of Economics continued its exploration of current themes in the maritime sector on February 28th at the Maritime Green Growth – evaluating opportunities and bottlenecks stakeholder event. The purpose of the event was to provide examples this time how in economics research various developments related to the adoption of emission-reducing technologies could be modeled, as well as to identify the opportunities and challenges that companies recognize within this theme.

The Sea4Value Smart Terminals project and two newly published articles explore the role of digitalisation in the context of harbour environments and its potential in the transformation of business models in RoPax ports.  

“While listening to the visions on how autonomous vessels are sailing at our seas, I started thinking whether all these fancy ships would navigate towards the ports using the old fairway infrastructure with all those red and green buoys and other sea markings - Shouldn’t also the future fairways be smarter?”

Turku School of Economics (TSE) at the University of Turku has launched a two-year research project aimed at developing green transportation concepts to support the green transition. In the GreenConnect project, potential emission reduction measures in door-to-door transports, including maritime transportation, are examined, carbon dioxide emission calculation models and accuracy are improved, and business potential for green competitive advantage is investigated.

Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku is investing increasingly and more systematically in business research building further understanding of the maritime sector’s change dynamics and producing knowledge to support companies' business strategies. From this autumn, Turku School of Economics will strengthen the field through the Maritime@TSE research platform.

The project Smart Port City considers the upcoming spatial changes at the Port of Turku as catalyst for comprehensive development of digital integration of city-port infrastructure. The research carried out by the Centre for Collaborative Research (CCR) at the Turku School of Economics focuses specifically on urban development scope of the project. The project is funded by the Turku Urban Research Programme (01.2023-12.2024) and is coordinated by the Laboratory of Industrial Management at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU).