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.
Author Biography:
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, Cesar Ducruet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris-I Sorbonne University, France and Peter de Langen Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Theo E. Notteboom, Cesar Ducruet, Peter W. de Langen, Peter V. Hall, Wouter Jacobs, Brian Slack, Elisabeth Gouvernal, Jean Debrie, Arnaud Lemarchand, Olivier Joly, Athanasios A. Pallis, Patrick Verhoeven, Robert J. McCalla, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Changqian Guan, Claude Comtois, Michiel H. Nijdam, Antoine Fremont, Valerie Lavaud-Letilleul, Claudia Caballini, Laura Carpaneto, Francesco Parola, Anthony Beresford, Stephen Pettit, John Mangan, Amy Proctor, David Gibbs, Masato Shinohara, Sung-Woo Lee, Geun-Sub Kim, James J. Wang.
