Ports and networks : strategies, operations and perspectives

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of formulae -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Ports and networks: strategies -- 1 Port definition, concepts and the role of ports in supply chains: setting the scene -- 2 Ports and global supply chains -- 3 How ports create strategic value for their country -- 4 Port development company: role and strategy -- 5 Port management and institutional reform: thirty years of theory and practice -- 6 The port-city interface -- 7 Port performance -- 8 Accessibility of ports and networks -- 9 Port hinterland relations: lessons to be learned from a cost-benefit analysis of a large investment project -- 10 Coordination in hinterland chains -- Part 2 Ports and networks: operations -- 11 Optimisation in container liner shipping -- 12 Revenues and costs of maritime shipping -- 13 Container terminal operations: an overview -- 14 Port-centric information management in smart ports: a framework and categorisation -- 15 Intermodality and synchromodality -- 16 The industrial seaport -- Part 3 Ports and networks: perspectives -- 17 Port competition in historical perspective, 1648-2000: the ports in the Hamburg-Le Havre range -- 18 Sustainability -- 19 Port security -- 20 Technological innovations -- 21 The labour market of port-cities -- 22 Ports in transition -- Index.