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 …

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 …

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

Socioeconomic factors, including population growth, global trade and the worldwide
transport of materials, interact with environmental drivers to determine the sustainability of …

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

The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: Synthesis Report Page 1 OECD Regional
Development Working Papers 2013/13 The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: Synthesis …

The emergence of inland ports took place in several regions around the world, notably
where the growth of inland freight distribution required a massification of flows. Yet, there is …

Abstract The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed in 2018 on a reduction of
total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international shipping, which should lower the …

This article investigates the degree of overlap among the different layers of circulation
composing global maritime flows in recent decades. Mobilizing several methods originating …

Intermodal freight transport has been discussed for decades as an alternative to unimodal
road transport. However, it still does not represent a significant portion of the total freight …