Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: FERNANDO GONZALEZ-LAXE
Title: CONTEXTUALISATION OF THE PORT OPERATIN G SYSTEMS: MAIN EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN TRENDS
Abstract: Maritime transport faces a new stage of liberalisation and deregulation, aimed at establishing a network of delivery and storage of both products and services. Shipping lines and
port operators are increasingly focused on business and geographically centralised. This greater concentration coincides with a new redefinition of port competences. These new functions and the
higher involvement in logistics and integration with other means of transport contributes to modify territorial economies, as well as to establish new trends as regards governance and public/private
share in ports. European Union is a clear mosaic of both models of diversification and different possible performances, despite there being a strategy of port policy and integration, which makes
port coordination easier. While the South American continent shows an obvious lack of harmonization, as well as dissimilar trends regarding both port ownership and management, and
integration in transport networks.
Volume: 36
Issue: 3
Year: 2009
Handle: RePEc:jte:journl:2009:3:36:2