Ports and Networks (eBook, ePUB)

Strategies, Operations and Perspectives
Redaktion: Geerlings, Harry; Zuidwijk, Rob; Kuipers, Bart

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a much-needed introduction to recent developments in port and hinterland strategies, operations and related specializations. The first section examines strategic topics, for example port management, governance at different scales, performance, hinterlands and the port-city relationship. The second section covers operational aspects of maritime, port and land networks, while the final section offers perspectives on key issues in port development and management including current concerns on security, sustainability, innovation strategies, transition management and labour. Intended primarily for students, it is also is relevant to professionals new to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317077701
• Artikelnr.: 49984307

Autorenporträt

Harry Geerlings is Professor in Governance of Sustainable Mobility at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Bart Kuipers is Senior Researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics at the Urban, Port and Transport Economics Department of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Rob Zuidwijk is Professor of Ports in Global Networks at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Harry Geerlings, Bart Kuipers and Rob Zuidwijk
Part 1 - Ports and Networks: Strategies
Chapter 1: Port definition, concepts and the role of ports in supply
chains; setting the scene
Michiel Nijdam and Martijn van der Horst
Chapter 2: Ports and global supply chains
Rob Zuidwijk
Chapter 3: How ports create strategic value for their country
Frans A.J. van den Bosch, Rick M.A. Hollen and Henk W. Volberda
Chapter 4: Port development company: Role and strategy
Larissa van der Lugt
Chapter 5: Port management and institutional reform: thirty years of theory
and practice
Hercules Haralambides
Chapter 6: The port-city interface
Olaf Merk
Chapter 7: Port performance
Shmuel Yahalom and Changqian Guan
Chapter 8: Accessibility of ports and networks
Francesco Corman and Rudy R. Negenborn
Chapter 9: Port hinterland relations: Lessons to be learned from a
cost-benefit analysis of a large investment project
Christa Sys and Thierry Vanelslander
Chapter 10: Coordination in hinterland chains
Martijn van der Horst and Peter de Langen
Part 2 - Ports and Networks: Operations
Chapter 11: Optimisation in container liner shipping
Judith Mulder and Rommert Dekker
Chapter 12: Revenues and costs of maritime shipping
Albert Veenstra
Chapter 13: Container terminal operations: An overview
Iris F.A. Vis, Héctor J. Carlo and Kees Jan Roodbergen
Chapter 14: Port-centric information management in smart ports: A framework
and categorisation
Leonard Heilig and Stefan Voß
Chapter 15: Intermodality and synchromodality
Lóránt Tavasszy, Behzad Behdani and Rob Konings
Chapter 16: The industrial seaport
Bart Kuipers
Part 3 - Ports and Networks: Perspectives
Chapter 17: Port competition in historical perspective, 1648-2000: The
ports in the Hamburg-Le Havre Range
Hein A.M. Klemann
Chapter 18: Sustainability
Harry Geerlings and Tiedo Vellinga
Chapter 19: Port security
Changqian Guan and Shmuel Yahalom
Chapter 20: Technological innovations
Harry Geerlings and Bart Wiegmans
Chapter 21: The labour market of port-cities
Jaap de Koning, Kees Zandvliet and Arie Gelderblom
Chapter 22: Ports in transition
Derk Loorbach and Harry Geerlings