Eight container ports across five Eastern Mediterranean countries form this balanced annual panel of 152 port-year observations from 2005 to 2023. Assembled by Nasser Chaabo, it supports econometric analysis of container throughput, logistics infrastructure, renewable energy integration, and exposure to the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. The dataset includes derived variables for carbon exposure and structural break dummies for events like the 2020 Beirut port explosion.
Use Cases
- Modeling the relationship between national renewable electricity share and port container throughput.
- Analyzing the impact of EU Emissions Trading System allowance prices on port-level carbon border exposure.
- Investigating the effects of logistics performance indices on maritime trade volumes.
- Assessing the influence of geopolitical events like the Syrian conflict on port operations using structural break dummies.
Strengths
- Covers 19 years (2005–2023) of data for eight specific ports.
- Includes a constructed carbon exposure coefficient combining sector intensity and export share data.
- Documents structural zeros for onshore power supply and on-site renewable capacity, confirming their absence across the panel.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Assembled from multiple sources including UN COMTRADE, EDGAR, and the European Energy Exchange.
- Time Range
- 2005 to 2023
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-03 09:45:43; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Eight ports across Lebanon, Türkiye, Greece, Cyprus, and Egypt.