Motivated by a lack of research on port sustainability performance and assessment, this
paper uses a systematic literature review to identify trends, measurement methods, and …

Academic research on port competitiveness has so far focused on the identification of the
drivers of port competitiveness and their measurement. This paper argues that the port …

Port Economics, Management and Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the
contemporary port industry, showing how ports are organized to serve the global economy …

New forms of urbanization are unfolding around the world that challenge inherited
conceptions of the urban as a fixed, bounded and universally generalizable settlement type …

The seaport concept has a long history, going back to the early days of civilisation. In very
conventional terms, a port is defined as a transit area, a gateway through which goods and …

This expanded and revised fifth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a
comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts …

Despite early cartographical and graph-theoretical analyses of maritime flows in the 1940s
and 1960s, it is only from the 2000s onwards that maritime network analysis had grown …

This paper provides an overview of the container shipping supply chain (CSSC) by taking a
logistics perspective, covering all major value-adding segments in CSSC including freight …

The current decade sees a considerable growth in worldwide container transportation and
with it an indispensable need for optimization. Also the interest in and availability of …

Port and maritime studies dealing with containerization have observed traffic concentration
and dispersion throughout the world. Globalization, intermodal transportation, and …