One of the premises of devolution is that productivity gains will result from better management of the resources of the entity devolved. The success of a devolution program, however, is difficult to measure and may be a product of many variables. A review of the literature on port devolution...

The devolution of port authorities in Canada has not been without debate over the past 70 years. This paper provides a brief introduction to the role of ports in Canada and then examines the history of port policy and devolution, concluding that past policies were considered to have failed due...

The purpose of this chapter is to apply contingency theory to the management and governance of ports. It describes port devolution as part of a larger attempt by governments to apply the "one best way" principles of new public management (NPM) to the transportation sector. As an alternative...

The recent worldwide trend towards devolution in the port industry has spawned considerable variety in the types of governance structures now in place around the world. This chapter discusses the range of devolution models in the global ports sector, as identified by the World Bank and academic...

This chapter reviews the literature on devolution outcomes from a broader spectrum of industries. Having derived reasonably conclusive evidence in Chapter 18 as to the inadequacy of existing models of port governance, a more appropriately complex model has been proposed. This model exhibits...