the robustness of the current distribution of port activities in Europe we investigate what the effect would be of changes … that major changes in the general port layout of Europe are not to be expected. …There is an ongoing debate on the concentration of container throughput in the European container port system. A …

, 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 …

multi-port gateway system integrated within the broader context of an already well-established traditional maritime region … as a gateway to the Iberian Peninsula and Western Europe. In fact, Portuguese range ports, located at the extreme of rail … freight corridor n°4, could greatly benefit from 'port regionalization' into bordering regions of Spain, the Madrid Community …

Two complementary processes can be identified in nearly all bigger port cities in Europe during the last 25 years …Die Entwicklung in den meisten großen europäischen Hafenstädten ist von 2 komplementären Prozessen geprägt: Die Häfen … Revitalisation of Old Port Areas in Bremen 6./7.Mai 2004 mit Teilnehmer/inne/n aus Bilbao, Bremen, Cherbourg, Gdansk, Haifa, Patras …