. According to UVHH (2014) a rising amount of Ultra Large Container Vessels in the Port of Hamburg bears the risk of an increasing … synchromodality in major European container ports with special focus on the Port of Hamburg. …

, ports and port regions increasingly compete to serve distant hinterlands. In a European context, many researchers refer to … the agglomeration of economic activity in the Rhine-Ruhr area and the ‘blue banana' to explain the concentration of port … activity in the Hamburg-Le Havre port range. Besides this, the incorporation of new member states in the European market has …

-source pollution is heavily reliant on the provision of adequate port reception facilities on land. However, the coordination between … discharged to port reception facilities. Ship wastes are studied from a European Union (EU) law perspective and the author …