Session D01: Infrastructure Development

• The Kra Canal issue has been widely discussed by maritime players such as policy makers, regulators, and shipping and port operators. The second study thus uses a descriptive analysis method used together with a PESTLES analysis to examine the implications of the Kra Canal decision on the changes in the maritime business patterns in Malaysia.
  
  
• Port infrastructure is crucial, and port operations require a certain level of safety. The second study proposes optimal maintenance strategies of port infrastructures based on randomised Markovian models.
  
  
• Ports function as transport nodes and routes that different regions and countries are connected into economic networks. This third study uses the approach of transport complex economy, defined as "an economy that emerges from the join location of transport-related activities that have substantial links with one another", to examine container ports.