Die Zukunft des Hamburger Hafens ist seit vielen Jahren Gegenstand politischer und standortpolitischer Diskussionen. Seit Jahrhunderten prägt er das Bild und die Entwicklung der Stadt. In der vorliegenden Kurzstudie soll eine Einschätzung der für den Hafen relevanten Determinanten, Trends und...

"Port Economics, Management and Policy provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary port industry, showing how ports are organized to serve the global economy and support regional and local development. Structured in nine sections, this textbook examines a wide range of seaport topics,...

"Towards a Better Port Industry provides professionals in freight transport and maritime logistics, and specifically the port industry, as well as students in these fields with a better conceptual understanding of the port industry. It includes key insights and best practices for port management...

Transport infrastructure is viewed as an important determinant of regional growth and development. While this prediction especially holds from a theoretical perspective based on endogenous growth theories, from an empirical perspective it is not easy to verify this causal link, though. The main...

Most ports globally remain under public control, yet globalization and international logistic chains exercise pressure towards the dilution of the public control. This text presents briefly the institutional framework of ports and focuses on the operational and financial triggers to dilute...

"This casebook is an effort to explain the infrastructure markets under a unique perspective: the regulation. Regulation means the analysis of two main group[s] of laws: Internal Market and Antitrust. The aim is to find a uniform regulation applicable to Infrastructures in the European common...

Seaports nowadays are acting under a common set of constraints. They are players in a globalised and competitive industry, the logistics industry. With intense territorial roots, they are exposed to strong competitive pressures from the global shipping companies and their alliances on the one...

Seaports nowadays are acting under a common set of constraints. They are players in a globalised and competitive industry, the logistics industry. With intense territorial roots, they are exposed to strong competitive pressures from the global shipping companies and their alliances on the one...

Globalisation, technological developments, increasing competition and climate change are some of the major challenges that currently affect all port-cities regardless of size or location. To answer these challenges, further efforts must be undertaken - particularly to improve the capacities for...