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Verschijningsdatum: 23/09/2014
PORT BUSINESS
Market Challenges and Management Actions
door
Thierry Vanelslander, Christa Sys
Worldwide developments like globalisation and scale increase have totally changed the
port and maritime landscape. Thinking in terms of separate sections, like ports, has been replaced by thinking in terms of maritime logistics chains. Successful chains
look like well-oiled machines, whereby all sections and nodes are perfectly aligned.
At the same time, these developments also generate new questions in relation to
the future industrial-economic structure of the maritime and ports sector. Does the
evolution towards bigger ships continue in the direction of even more hub-and-spoke
systems? Will there be further consolidation and concentration among shipping
companies and port managers? What are the consequences in terms of negotiation
power? Will an eventual integration be horizontal or vertical? How dynamic will ports
become within logistics chains? What needs to be regulated, and what is to be left
to market functioning? How does one influence intermodality, comodality and mode
choice in hinterland transport?
This book deals with the question how the previously formulated recommendations
can concretely be implemented. Which measures should be taken prioritarily? Which
timing is to be followed? How do these measures need to be translated into policy
steps? Is there a need for a stimulus policy, or is regulation suffi cient? In providing a
nswers and scenarios to these questions, the book offers value to scientists, policy
makers and practitioners.