Shipping and ports are like Siamese twins: neither can live without the other. The trouble is that due to rapid technical progress in shipbuilding it has become difficult to provide the shipping industry with both in the right proportion and at the same time.

Ports located in the Portuguese west coast have been collectively defined as the 'Portuguese Range', constituting a multi-port gateway system integrated within the broader context of an already well-established traditional maritime region. The aim of this paper is to identify how the Portuguese...

The paper analyses the national and regional European maritime clusters according to the sea basin division proposed by the European Union Integrated Maritime Policy: Atlantic and Arctic oceans; Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and North seas. Besides the identification of all maritime sectors by...