, 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 …

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Resort-Port …-1769 / Brodie, Allan -- Chapter 3. A Dutch Idyll? Scheveningen as a Seaside Resort, Fishing Village and Port, c. 1700-1900 / Furneé … Port in the Eighteenth Century / Hussey, David -- Chapter 5. Three Views of Brighton as Port and Resort / Gray, Fred …

Determining which ports to call at in a maritime loop is considered as an important determinant factor for shipping … companies which impacts not only on efficiency, and productivity but also on transportation costs. The port selection process … West-Africa and West-Europe is investigated for which the main objective is to minimize the trade route's supply chain …

Blue Geopolitics and Geostrategic. The above comparison between sea basins will allow characterizing "maritime Europe …&D and leader firms. The needed conditions in order that Europe could organise itself has a "vast continental maritime …

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 …