and Northern Europe through new port investments (e.g. Piraeus, the proposed Venice container offshore terminal) and … specific focus on the effects into port competition within the Mediterranean area. …

This paper aims at analyzing the hinterland position of the German port of Hamburg in Central Europe. As a first step … potential of the hinterland from Hamburg, and from their possible emerging competitors, respectively, by using simple travel … affects the competitive position in hinterland transport. However, besides the hinterland infrastructure there are other …

companies' perspective. These factors include infrastructure, hinterland, connectivity and port's dues. Design …, improved hinterland conditions, port facilities, services cost, volume of cargo, connectivity to other ports and dwell time …Purpose: The purpose of this article is to investigate the factors that encourage shipping lines to use port of Sohar …

multi-port gateway system integrated within the broader context of an already well-established traditional maritime region … freight corridor n°4, could greatly benefit from 'port regionalization' into bordering regions of Spain, the Madrid Community … service providers operating in Portugal are also identified. The strategies for promoting 'port regionalization' adopted by …

currently defined as a dry port. To this end, a structured keyword search in major electronic databases has been conducted to … American countries, the following keywords were used: “dry port”, “inland terminal”, “freight village” and “interporto/i”. The … unanimous consensus concerning cataloguing of terrestrial nodal facilities serving port gateways. “Dry ports” have emerged as …

This paper presents a theoretical network programming formulation of the extended gateway concept in port hinterland … configuration of a hypothetical port hinterland network over which typical container distribution operations are performed, a …