New trends in port strategies. Emerging role for ICT infrastructures

New trends in port strategies are emerging around the world in the last decade: port authorities are modifying their nature and their role, acquiring more and more an active role in the governance of logistics systems and often adopting managerial and entrepreneurial behaviors. Not all national legal frameworks are adapting in the same way and at the same time to the outcoming context, and port authorities of different countries are actually have different tools and capabilities to face the global competition. One common supporting tool of port authorities' evolution and strategies could be identified into ICT infrastructures. Based on this hypothesis, the paper aims at highlighting potential opportunity of an interoperability platform for interconnecting existing ICT modules and its implications in terms of port authorities' competitiveness. corridor 24 Genoa Rotterdam is the concrete case analyzed within the context of the European Research Project MoS24 “ICT based co-modality promotion center for integrating PP24 into the Mediterranean MoS Motorways of the sea”.