Ports Cities And Global Supply Chains

Author : James Wang,Daniel Olivier,Theo Notteboom,Brian Slack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351909853

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Ports, Cities, and Global Supply Chains by James Wang,Daniel Olivier,Theo Notteboom,Brian Slack Pdf

Global trends in policy and technology related fields are rapidly reshaping the port industry worldwide. International in scope, this volume provides multidisciplinary insights into the role port cities adopt in dealing with global supply chains. Throughout the book, concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and transport geography are applied to offer an in-depth understanding of the processes underlying global supply chains and associated spatial and functional dynamics in port-cities. The book also discusses policy outcomes and implications relevant to port-cities positioned in different segments of global supply chains.

Author : Harry Geerlings,Bart Kuipers,Rob Zuidwijk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317077701

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Ports and Networks by Harry Geerlings,Bart Kuipers,Rob Zuidwijk Pdf

Written by leading experts in the field, this book offers an introduction to recent developments in port and hinterland strategies, operations and related specializations. The book begins with a broad overview of port definitions, concepts and the role of ports in global supply chains, and an examination of strategic topics such as port management, governance, performance, hinterlands and the port-city relationship. The second part of the book examines operational aspects of maritime, port and land networks. A range of topics are explored, such as liner networks, finance and business models, port-industrial clusters, container terminals, intermodality/synchromodality, handling and warehousing. The final section of the book provides insights into key issues of port development and management, from security, sustainability, innovation strategies, transition management and labour issues. Drawing on a variety of global case studies, theoretical insights are supplemented with real world and best practice examples, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and professionals interested in maritime studies, transport studies, economics and geography.

Author : A. Ng,John Liu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137273697

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Port-Focal Logistics and Global Supply Chains by A. Ng,John Liu Pdf

This book investigates the trends and challenges that ports, logistics and supply chains have tackled in recent decades and the way forward. A new concept, port focal logistics is introduced which appreciates the efforts by previous studies in this field, but simultaneously recognize the limitations, and the need for further improvements.

Author : Peter Van Baalen,Rob Zuidwijk,Jo van Nunen
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 160198278X

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Port Inter-organizational Information Systems by Peter Van Baalen,Rob Zuidwijk,Jo van Nunen Pdf

Port Inter-Organizational Information Systems aims at providing insights into the ways global sea ports are challenged by the need for managing complex information flows, given the developments in global supply chains. We argue that special port IT capabilities are needed to address these challenges by sharing information and planning and executing container transport in a collaborative way, establishing inter-organizational information architectures, and coordinating interests to successfully implement the technological infrastructures. We focus on the role of port community systems that support port communities in meeting the demands of global supply chains. Port Inter-Organizational Information Systems has a multidisciplinary nature and should be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners in several fields, including information management, information systems, operations management, supply chain management, and technology management. The book combines a number of chapters where concepts are explained, while referring to a large repository of case studies provided in an appendix. Also, an introduction to the container transport network is provided in another appendix.

Author : Jürgen Sorgenfrei
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781547400874

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Port Business by Jürgen Sorgenfrei Pdf

Port Business is essential reading for all those with an interest in trade and transportation and the role of ports in the global supply chain. It discusses the various types of ports in existence, identifies the major ports per category, analyzes what the key business drivers are, describes their governance, how they are managed, which trends influence them, and what kind of impact they have on supply chains. Dr. Jürgen Sorgenfrei uses his significant consulting and project development experience within the international ports, shipping, rail & logistics sector, and in global economics, trade, analytics, and forecasting as well as in intermodal hinterland transport to provide this comprehensive overview of port management. The book is a combination of a strong background in principles and practical knowledge and is an indispensable resource for those interested in maritime economics. .

Author : Peter van Baalen,Jo van Nunen,Rob Zuidwijk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:837464446

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Port Inter-organizational Information Systems by Peter van Baalen,Jo van Nunen,Rob Zuidwijk Pdf

Author : Mina Akhavan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030525781

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Port Geography and Hinterland Development Dynamics by Mina Akhavan Pdf

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain. Maritime ports and the cities hosting them have long fascinated scholars – geographers, economists, architects, urban planners, sociologists etc. – as they become centres of exchange where different social and urban environments meet, at the intersection between land and sea. Given that the current body of literature on the topic is biased – mainly concerning the Western world and East Asian region – with mono-disciplinary tendencies, this book outlines a theoretical basis from a wide range of literature, linking port-city studies, globalization theories and logistics, and adopts a multidisciplinary perspective. The main target audience of the book includes scholars and graduate students in urban studies, spatial planning, urban and regional economics, logistics, geography and transport geography with an interest in studying port geography and the port-city interface, port infrastructure development and port hinterland dynamics; it will also benefit policymakers and urban planners whose work involves these topics.

Author : Elvira Haezendonck,Alain Verbeke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319966588

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Sustainable Port Clusters and Economic Development by Elvira Haezendonck,Alain Verbeke Pdf

This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides. This book addresses the strategic alignment between port authorities and their supply chain partners, with a focus on governance challenges. Many port (authority) managers are engaged in efforts to improve their strategic alignment with business partners in their proximate geographic region, yet the economic objectives pursued can vary widely. These objectives can include improvements in port competitiveness and stability of traffic flows, as well as better access to scarce resources such as land and capital, or simply more control over the logistics chain. Using various Benelux seaports as case studies, the authors of this volume show that improving strategic alignment can involve a wide variety of different governance choices, ranging from top-down to bottom-up alliance formation, from project-driven to multi-activity collaboration, and from long-term contracting to full-fledged mergers. This book with state-of-the-art insight on modern port governance will be of interest to port managers around the globe, as well as to lecturers and students in maritime educational programs. Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Franklin W. Knight,Peggy K. Liss
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870496573

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Atlantic Port Cities by Franklin W. Knight,Peggy K. Liss Pdf

Author : Boris Vormann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317577126

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Global Port Cities in North America by Boris Vormann Pdf

As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially — creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes — remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people — and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.

Author : Angela Carpenter,Rodrigo Lozano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030364649

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European Port Cities in Transition by Angela Carpenter,Rodrigo Lozano Pdf

Seaports, as part of urban centers, play a major role in the cultural, social and economic life of the cities in which they are located, and through the links they provide to the outside world. Port-cities in Europe have faced significant change, first with the loss of heavy industry, emergence of Eastern European democracies, and the widening of the European Community (now European Union) during the second half of the twentieth century, and more recently through drivers to change including the global Sustainable Development Agenda and the European Union Circular Economy Agenda. This book examines the role of modern seaports in Europe and consider how port-cities are responding to these major drivers for change. It discusses the broad issues facing European Sea Ports, including port life cycles, spatial planning, and societal integration. May 2019 saw the 200th anniversary of the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic between the US and England, and it is just over 60 years since the invention of the modern intermodal shipping container – both drivers of change in the maritime and ports industry. Increasing movements of people, e.g. through low cost cruises to port cities, can play a major role in changing the nature of such a city and impact on the lives of the people living there. This book brings together original research by both long-standing and younger scholars from multiple disciplines and builds upon the wider discourse about sea ports, port cities, and sustainability.

Author : Cyrille Bertelle,Nathan Gouin,Antoine Frémont
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003809401

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Maritime Ports, Supply Chains and Logistics Corridors by Cyrille Bertelle,Nathan Gouin,Antoine Frémont Pdf

This book aims to highlight the interrelations between maritime ports, supply chains and logistics. Inland corridors could be defined as major arteries for inland transportation from and to the maritime port. They link together one or several ports located on the maritime range with one or several major inland metropolitan areas. The efficiency of international supply chains depends not only on the smooth operations in the port but also on the efficiency of inland distribution in terms of cost, reliability, added value services for the goods, safety and finally the environment. With contributions from international experts, the book offers a transversal perspective on logistics corridor development using case studies on the Seine Axis, among others. Organized into four key sections, the book highlights the interrelations between ports and corridors using both empirical and theoretical research from various disciplines, including engineering as well as human and social sciences. Maritime Ports,Supply Chains and Logistics Corridors will be directly relevant to a wide variety of scholars and postgraduate researchers in the fields of transport studies and management, maritime logistics, supply chain management and international logistics as well as industrial engineering, geography, economics and political science.

Author : César Ducruet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317077640

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Ports in Proximity by César Ducruet Pdf

Ports in Proximity provides an overview of key contemporary research in the field through a broad range of international case studies. The concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and transport geography are applied throughout the book to offer an in-depth understanding of the processes underlying spatial and functional dynamics in port systems. The opportunities for cooperation between competing adjacent ports is examined while the avenues for further joint research are identified, setting an agenda for further study.

Author : Yui-yip Lau,Adolf K.Y. Ng,Jorge Acevedo
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781783089567

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Principles of Global Supply Chain Management by Yui-yip Lau,Adolf K.Y. Ng,Jorge Acevedo Pdf

Supply chain management is the cornerstone of the competitive strategies of many presentday organizations and has evolved from the operational to the strategic level. Understanding this, Principles of Global Supply Chain Management offers a comprehensive insight into the global supply chain sector—analyzing the strategic, operational and financial aspects of the industry, and addressing the key elements in the management of global supply chains. The key topics of each chapter demonstrate a variety of fundamental issues in the supply chain industry: What are supply chain markets? What is the supply chain cost structure? What are supply chain strategies? How do supply chain firms design and implement strategies? What are the key roles of logistics service providers, logistics education operators and logistics associations? How should supply chain operations be managed? How is a sustainable and innovative supply chain structure created? Comparative practical case studies from Asia, North America and Latin America lend weight to the chapters.

Author : James Jixian Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317077732

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Port-City Interplays in China by James Jixian Wang Pdf

China has progressed dramatically since 1978 when the country started its economic reforms and opened up to the world economy. It took only three decades for China to develop from a closed, centrally planned economy with little sea-borne trade into the world's second largest economy with the largest container shipment volume in the world. The major coastal cities have been gateways linking China with the world and have experienced rapid urbanization and port growth. How has such port growth been speeded up and realized under strong state control and intervention? How have ports and their cities affected each other? What lessons can China’s port-cities learn from other countries, regions and cities? What will be the next stage of port-city interplays in China in this globalizing era? Answering these questions from a geographical perspective, James Wang looks into four sets of port-city relations in China: Economic and functional relations between port and city; port-city spatial relations; external network relations of cities through ports; and port-city governance. These relations formulate a conceptual framework which is used to interpret port-city interplays in individual ports and cities but also in multi-port regions such as the Pearl River Delta. Based on the author’s own research and investigations into more than 25 port cities in China over the past 18 years, this book provides vivid stories about China and challenge existing theories on port development.