World Shipping and Port Development
Will be published approx. on 21. June 2005
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4039-4753-6 (ISBN)
Description
With the globalization of production and consumption, shipping and ports play an increasingly vital part in facilitating the world-wide movement of cargoes. Containing a selection of papers by some of the world's leading maritime economists, this book provides comprehensive and detailed analyses of the most critical issues affecting these sectors. Areas addressed include: the role of ports and shipping within the global supply chain; the development of international logistics and; the impact of public policy on competition, pricing and efficiency.
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Edition
2005 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
272 p.
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
466 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-4753-6 (9781403947536)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
ALFRED J. BAIRD Napier University, UK
M. BENACCHIO University of Genoa, Italy
MARY R. BROOKS Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada
SHARON L. CULLINANE Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
SOPHIA EVERETT Victoria University of Melbourne, Australia
MICHAEL FIRTH The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
STEPHEN X. H. GONG The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
HERCULES E. HARALAMBIDES Center for Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL), Erasmus University, The Netherlands
KWANG HEE KIM Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan
KUNIO MIYASHITA University of Marketing and Distribution Science, Japan
E. MUSSO University of Genoa, Italy
DONG-WOOK SONG Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
JOSE TONGZON Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A. VERBEKE University of Brussels, Belgium
MARINER WANG Associate Dean and Professor of International Affairs, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
TENGFEI WANG University of Newcastle, UK
JIAN HUA YANG Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan
JIAQI YANG Wuhan University of Technology, China
SHIGERU YOSHIDA Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan
Content
List of Figures List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Depth and Diversity in Analysing the Shipping and Ports Industries; T-W.Lee & K.Cullinane The Rise of Container Transport in East Asia; M.Wang Network Economies of Global Alliances in Liner Shipping: The Case of Japanese Liner Shipping Companies; S.Yoshida, J.H.Yang & K.H.Kim Choice of Financing and Governance Structures in the Transport Industry: Theory and Practices; S.H.X.Gong, M.Firth & K.Cullinane A Fuzzy Set Theory Approach to Flagging out: Towards a New Chinese Shipping Policy; H.E.Haralambides & J.Yang Deregulation, Competitive Pressures and the Emergence of Intermodalism; S.Everett Good Governance and Ports as Tools of Economic Development: Are They Compatible? M.R.Brooks Privatization Trends at the World's Top-Hundred Container Ports; A.Baird A New Paradigm of Hub Ports in the Logistics Era; D-W.Song & T-W.Lee Key Success Factors for Transshipment Hubs: The Case of the Port of Singapore; J.Tongzon The Logistics Strategy of Japanese Ports: The Case of Kobe and Osaka; K.Miyashita Port Financing and Pricing in the EU: Theory, Politics and Reality; H.E.Haralambides, A.Verbeke, E.Musso & M.Benacchio A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Container Ports in China and the Implications for their Development; K.Cullinane, S.L.Cullinane & T.Wang Index