Networks, mergers and economies of scale, three aspects of the same strategy, which concerns the thrust towards oligopolistic concentration by Liner Shipping Companies engaged in the maritime container transport. Correlated with this process, attention has focused on evolution in transport...

A cost-transit time choice model: monomodality vs. intermodality. The Mediterranean and Italy are scenarios suited to consolidation of hub and spokes networks. The question is: are terrestrial spokes serious competitors of maritime spokes? This paper highlights the limits of the Italian rail...

This paper puts forward an analysis suggesting a parallelism between hub and spokes networks in maritime transport and complex networks (such as the world-wide web, www). This possible parallelism is then used to explain the way networks in the Mediterranean may evolve. Since there is at present...