Robert J. McCalla, Brian Slack

Integrating Seaports and Trade Corridors (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hall, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317115243
• Artikelnr.: 45099199

Autorenporträt

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