Small and Medium-Sized Ports in the TEN-T Network and Nexus of Europe’s Twin Transition: The Way towards Sustainable and Digital Port Service Ecosystems

Despite high competition among big EU ports, such as Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Valencia, acting Core Ports in the Trans-European Transport and Comprehensive Network (TEN-T), this paper addresses marginalized decision-making capability for environmental digital transition immanent Small Medium-Sized (SMSPs) ecosystems EU. Irrespective of topical research, little is said about SMSPs ecosystem sustainability robustness how can pursue transformative way. Here, management strategic port decision levels are rather patchy disconnected from operational performance. bound to limited resources low cognitive, organizational, institutional proximity, compared their bigger counterparts. This situation provides a lot room critical demarche, since TEN-T Network, there 225 only 104 Ports, majority qualifying, thus, SMSPs. research aims at reducing research-to-practice lacuna by improving managerial capacity on responsibility efficiency. Using an concept aggregated empirical data three macro-regions—the Baltic Sea Region, Adriatic-Ionian Mediterranean specific tools suggested applications facilitate reinforce responsibility, social equity, economic