Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Thea E. Nolleboom, Cesar Ducruet and Peter W. de Langen
  • Part I: Conceptualization of ports in proximity
  • Revisiting Inter-Port Relationships under the New Economic Geography Research Framework / Cesar Ducruet, Theo E. Notteboom and Peter W. de Langen
  • Ports in Proximity, Proximity in Ports: Towards a Typology / Peter V. Hall and Wouter Jacobs
  • Port Regions and Globalization / Cesar Ducruet
  • Path Dependency and Contingency in the Development of Multi-port Gateway Regions and Multi-port Hub Regions / Theo E. Notteboom
  • Part II: The governance of ports in proximity
  • Proximity and Port Governance / Brian Slack, Elisabeth Gouvernal and Jean Debrie
  • Regional Integration and Maritime Range / Arnaud Lemarchand and Olivier Joly
  • Does the EU Port Policy Strategy Encompass 'Proximity'? / Athanasios A. Pallis and Patrick Verhoeven
  • Part III: The North American case: corridors and gateways
  • Gateways are More than Ports: The Canadian Example of Cooperation among Stakeholders / Robert J. McCalla
  • Port-hinterland Divergence along the North American Eastern Seaboard / Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Changqian Guan
  • Competitiveness of Green Gateways: A Blueprint for Canada / Claude Comtois and Brian Slack
  • Part IV: The European case: coordination in a competitive environment
  • A Best Practice in Cross-border Port Cooperation: Copenhagen Malmo Port / Peter W. de Langen and Michiel H. Nydam
  • Rethinking Proximity: New Opportunities for Port Development. The Case of Dunkirk / Antoine Fremont and Valerie Lavaud-Letilleul
  • Italian Port Authorities Approaching the Post-reform: The Ligurian Case / Claudia Caballini, Laura Carpaneto and Francesco Parola
  • A Geographical Perspective on Port Performance in the United Kingdom, 1999-2007 / Anthony Beresford and Stephen Pettit
  • External Influences on the Humber Estuary Ports, the Largest Concentration of Port Activity in the UK / John Mangan, Amy Proctor and David Gibbs
  • Part V: The Asian case: major changes in port systems' hierarchies
  • Port Competition Paradigms and Japanese Port Clusters / Masato Shinohara
  • Port Challenge in Northeast Asia: Korea's Two-hub Port Strategy / Sung-Woo Lee and Geun-Sub Kim
  • Hong Kong in Transition from a Hub Port City to a Global Supply Chain Management Centre / James J. Wang.