Competition between ports depends on inland freight distribution and the spatial structure of the hinterland. With this … changed the structure of port hinterlands. In this paper we attempt to reveal the spatial structure of the hinterland of the … clusters using spatial as well as content-related constraints. We use both economic characteristics of hinterland regions and …

destination. Such capability is associated with the hinterland connectivity of the sea port. Hinterland connectivity of a port is … mostly treated as a local indicator, describing the number of different hinterland locations served by a port via a direct … transshipment become more feasible and common. This turns hinterland transport into a complex multimodal network, whose connectivity …