Ports located in the Portuguese west coast have been collectively defined as the 'Portuguese Range', constituting a multi-port gateway system integrated within the broader context of an already well-established traditional maritime region. The aim of this paper is to identify how the Portuguese...

Further to being the country's most important port, Piraeus has been a traditional centre attracting organisations related directly or indirectly with port or shipping activities. The geographical concentration of enterprises in the wider Piraeus area is attributed not just to port operations,...

This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 1994-1998, but whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. It draws from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the...