Integrating seaports and trade corridors
By: edited by Peter Hall ... [et al.].
Contributors: McCalla, Robert J.; Comtois, Claude; Slack, Brian
Series: Transport and mobility series; Transport and mobility series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781409404002; 9781409404019
Subjects: Trade routes; Business logistics; Infrastructure (Economics); Shipping; Transportation geography; Planning; Transportation; Harbors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Economic cycles in maritime shipping and ports : the path to the crisis of 2008 / Gustaaf De Monie, Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Theo Notteboom; title: Organizational and geographical ramifications of the 2008-09 financial crisis on the maritime shipping and port industries / Theo Notteboom, Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Gustaaf De Monie; title: Carriers' role in opening gateways : experiences from major port regions / Antoine Frémont and Francesco Parola; title: Transport and logistics hubs : separating fact from fiction / Elisabeth Gouvernal, Valérie Lavaud-Letilleul and Brian Slack; title: Port, corridor, gateway and chain : exploring the geography of advanced maritime producer services / Peter V. Hall, Wouter Jacobs and Hans Koster; title: Measuring port performance : lessons from the waterfront / Claude Comtois and Brian Slack; title: Key interactions and value drivers towards port users' satisfaction / Athanasios A. Pallis and Thomas K. Vitsounis; title: Improving port performance : from serving ships to adding value in supply chains / Anthony Beresford, Su-Han Woo and Stephen Pettit; title: Coordination in multi-actor logistics operations : challenges at the port interface / Trevor D. Heaver; title: Benchmarking the integration of corridors in international value networks : the study of African cases / Jean-François Pelletier and Yann Alix; title: Building value into transport chains : the challenges of multi-goal policies / Emmanuel Guy and Frédéric Lapointe; title: Perspectives on integrated container transport : the Canadian example / Robert J. McCalla; title: Trade corridors and gateways: an evolving national transportation plan / Michael C. Ircha; title: Hinterlands, port regionalisation and extended gateways : the case of Belgium and northern France / Jacques J. Charlier; title: Entrepreneurial region and gateway-making in China : a case study of Guangxi / James J. Wang.