How can the benefits of maritime trade be increased for the companies and institutions directly involved as well as the port city-regions where the transfers take place? Tackling this question, the authors of this volume put into perspective the reality, opportunities and challenges facing seaport gateways and corridors, now and in the future.
How can the benefits of maritime trade be increased for the companies and institutions directly involved as well as the port city-regions where the transfers take place? Tackling this question, the authors of this volume put into perspective the reality, opportunities and challenges facing seaport gateways and corridors, now and in the future.
Peter Hall, Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Robert J. McCalla, Professor of Geography, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Claude Comtois, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal, Canada and Brian Slack, Department of Geography, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction; I: Global Economic Change: Implications for Ports, Corridors and Value Chains; 2: Economic Cycles in Maritime Shipping and Ports: The Path to the Crisis of 2008; 3: Organizational and Geographical Ramifications of the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis on the Maritime Shipping and Port Industries; 4: Carriers' Role in Opening Gateways: Experiences from Major Port Regions; 5: Transport and Logistics Hubs: Separating Fact from Fiction; 6: Port, Corridor, Gateway and Chain: Exploring the Geography of Advanced Maritime Producer Services; II: Measuring and Improving Gateway and Corridor Performance; 7: Measuring Port Performance: Lessons from the Waterfront; 8: Key Interactions and Value Drivers towards Port Users' Satisfaction; 9: Improving Port Performance: From Serving Ships to Adding Value in Supply Chains; 10: Coordination in Multi-Actor Logistics Operations: Challenges at the Port Interface; III: International Case Studies; 11: Benchmarking the Integration of Corridors in International Value Networks: The Study of African Cases; 12: Building Value into Transport Chains: The Challenges of Multi-Goal Policies; 13: Perspectives on Integrated Container Transport: The Canadian Example; 14: Trade Corridors and Gateways: An Evolving National Transportation Plan; 15: Hinterlands, Port Regionalisation and Extended Gateways: The Case of Belgium and Northern France; 16: Entrepreneurial Region and Gateway-Making in China: A Case Study of Guangxi
1: Introduction; I: Global Economic Change: Implications for Ports, Corridors and Value Chains; 2: Economic Cycles in Maritime Shipping and Ports: The Path to the Crisis of 2008; 3: Organizational and Geographical Ramifications of the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis on the Maritime Shipping and Port Industries; 4: Carriers' Role in Opening Gateways: Experiences from Major Port Regions; 5: Transport and Logistics Hubs: Separating Fact from Fiction; 6: Port, Corridor, Gateway and Chain: Exploring the Geography of Advanced Maritime Producer Services; II: Measuring and Improving Gateway and Corridor Performance; 7: Measuring Port Performance: Lessons from the Waterfront; 8: Key Interactions and Value Drivers towards Port Users' Satisfaction; 9: Improving Port Performance: From Serving Ships to Adding Value in Supply Chains; 10: Coordination in Multi-Actor Logistics Operations: Challenges at the Port Interface; III: International Case Studies; 11: Benchmarking the Integration of Corridors in International Value Networks: The Study of African Cases; 12: Building Value into Transport Chains: The Challenges of Multi-Goal Policies; 13: Perspectives on Integrated Container Transport: The Canadian Example; 14: Trade Corridors and Gateways: An Evolving National Transportation Plan; 15: Hinterlands, Port Regionalisation and Extended Gateways: The Case of Belgium and Northern France; 16: Entrepreneurial Region and Gateway-Making in China: A Case Study of Guangxi
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