Port Economics, Management and Policy

Updated the map in the port cold chains page dealing with the number of reefer slots by container port. There are several patterns explaining this distribution.

Completed a draft version of the chapter discussing the insertion of ports into energy markets. This chapter was challenging to write and will need several reviewing iterations.

Added a page displaying the most important bunkering markets. Two geographical factors are at play: centrality and intermediacy.

Added a page presenting from a geographical perspective the concentration of gas and petroleum production in the Middle East.

Discussion about the emerging structure of global maritime shipping. Based in prior work for the ITF.

The level of integration in maritime supply chains, the outcome of vertical and horizontal processes.

Added a new page covering the major harbor types; the physical setting of port facilities.

Added a new page representing an inventory of port sites among ports with the largest tonnage. 70% of sample are seaports. Mainland ports account for only 30% of the sample.

Added a page covering the four major dimension defining the role and function of a port.

Added a page proving an overview of the main port of the Roman Empire, Portus, from which the term port was derived.