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 …

This introductory piece sets the context for the special issue and explains its rationale. It
offers a series of reflections on the rise of the mobilities turn and its relations with preexisting …

Over the past twenty-five years a considerable amount of literature has emerged that
addresses inland port development in a variety of ways and in different institutional contexts …

Digitalization is frequently addressed in recent economic and social scientific literature. This
paper applies a distinction to digital data (raw data) and digital technologies (including both …

Scholars have shown that technical standards play an important role in building global
transportation and communication infrastructures, but the environmental standardization …

Port system development is a key theme in port geography literature. Recent decades have
brought a rise in container terminal development at estuarine, coastal and offshore port …

Facilitating start-ups located in the port-city interface is one of the current policy strategies of
municipalities in many port-cities worldwide to encourage innovations in constantly evolving …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implications of COVID-19 on container import
flows via the US port distribution system. We employ statistics collected for more than 21 US …

Ports are usually regarded as hubs for resource allocation, and the identification of port
impacts is still worthy of further study. Using 1998–2007 panel data on all 146 ports and 282 …