Ports in Proximity provides an overview of key contemporary research in the field through a broad range of international case studies. The concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and transport geography are applied throughout the book to offer an in-depth understanding of the processes underlying spatial and functional dynamics in port systems. The opportunities for cooperation between competing adjacent ports is examined while the avenues for further joint research are identified, setting an agenda for further study.

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Theo E. Notteboom, César Ducruet and Peter W. de Langen; Part I Conceptualization of Ports in Proximity: Revisiting inter-port relationships under the new economic geography research framework, César Ducruet, Theo E. Notteboom and Peter W. de Langen; Ports in proximity, proximity in ports: towards a typology, Peter V. Hall and Wouter Jacobs; Port regions and globalization, César Ducruet; Path dependency and contingency in the development of multi-port gateway regions and multi-port hub regions, Theo E. Notteboom. Part II The Governance of Ports in Proximity: Proximity and port governance, Brian Slack, Elisabeth Gouvernal and Jean Debrie; Regional integration and maritime range, Arnaud Lemarchand and Olivier Joly; Does the EU port policy strategy encompass 'proximity'?, Athanasios A. Pallis and Patrick Verhoeven. Part III The North-American Case: Corridors and Gateways: Gateways are more than ports: the Canadian example of cooperation among stakeholders, Robert J. McCalla; Port-hinterland divergence along the North-American eastern seaboard, Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Changqian Guan; Competitiveness of green gateways: a blueprint for Canada, Claude Comtois and Brian Slack. Part IV The European Case: Coordination in a Competitive Market: A best practice in cross-border port cooperation: Copenhagen Malmö port, Peter W. de Langen and Michiel H. Nijdam; rethinking proximity: new opportunities for port development. The case of Dunkirk, Antoine Frémont and Valérie Lavaud-Letilleul; Italian port authorities approaching the post-reform: the Liguran case, Claudia Caballini, Laura Carpaneto and Francesco Parola; A geographical perspective on port performance in the United Kingdom, 1999–2007, Anthony Beresford and Stephen Pettit; External influences on the Humber estuary ports, the largest concentration of activity in the UK, John Mangan, Amy Proctor and David Gibbs. Part V The Asian Case: Major Changes in Port Systems' Hierarchies: Port competition paradigms and Japanese port clusters, Masato Shinohara; Port challenge in Northeast Asia: Korea's 2-hub port strategy, Sung-Woo Lee and Geun-Sub Kim; Hong Kong in transition from a hub port city to a global supply chain management centre, James J. Wang; List of references; Index.

About the Editor: Theo Notteboom is President of ITMMA (Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp) and is also affiliated with the Department of Transport and Regional Economics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, César Ducruet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris-I Sorbonne University, France and Peter de Langen Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Reviews: 'Ports in Proximity offers a theoretically inspired and empirically rich sample of papers on current issues such as port interaction, regionalization and co-operation. Ports are no longer considered territorially fixed entities but a complex assemblage of agents in the system of flows. This perspective is much appreciated.'
Markus Hesse, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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