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THEMARITIME Economist

the story of IAME

After lunch time, the five parallel sessions were
arranged for the following days until September 7.
In the meantime, special sessions for the shipping,
port, shipbuilding and logistics sectors were
organized to pave the way for academia to get field
knowledge in collaboration with practitioners and
governmental policy makers. One peculiar and
innovative plenary session was launched for the first
time at IAME Conference, which is “Meeting Editors”
(chaired by Professor Kevin Cullinane and Professor
YT Chang) aiming at two-ways dialogues between
Editors in Chief/Associate Editors and the scholars.
The representatives of the following journals
Maritime Policy & Managment, Maritime Economics
and Logistics, International Journal of Logistics and
Management, International Journal of Shipping
Transport and Logistics, Transport Reviews,
Transportation Journal, and Omega joined the
meeting. After the 2012 Taipei Conference,
the event received well recognition and
praise
from
the
participants.
A
similar
programme was also arranged in 2014 Norfolk
Conference in USA.
In the first date of the conference, Professor
Emeritus Dr Kuang Lin; Chairman, Pacific Star
Group and Mr Choon-Sun Kim, CEO of Inchon Port
Authority, Korea hosted Gala Dinner at Grand
Hotel, Taipei. Professor Lin also chaired a special
session on Shipping and Port Industry in collaboration
with session co-chair Mr Tom Leander, Editor-in-Chief
for Asia (ex-Editor-in-Chief in London) for Lloyd’s List.
At the Closing Ceremony on September 8,
prizes and awards were announced, including
Hanjin Prize (inception 1996), MPM Best Paper
Prize and Best reviewer awards (see Appendix 1).
Conference Organiser Prof. Lee hanned over
the IAME Flag to 2013 Marseille Conference

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donated the IAME Flag to President of IAME, Professor
Notteboom and on e desk cross-flag of IAME. After
taking memorial group photo (see photo 2), the
plenary session was filled by three key luminary
speakers: Kevin Cullinane, Professor at Transport
Research Institute, Edinburg Napier University, UK,
Tom Leander, Asian Editor and Deputy Editor of
Lloyd’s List, Hong Kong, and Choon-Sun Kim, CEO
of Incheon Port Authority, Korea.

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