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Shipping and ports in the twenty-first century : globalization, technological change and the environment

Author: David Pinder; Brian Slack
Publisher: London : New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series: Ocean management and policy series, 6.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congrès
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Pinder; Brian Slack
ISBN: 0415283442 9780415283441
OCLC Number: 53937730
Description: xxii, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Contemporary contexts for shipping and ports --
Global and local in the maritime sector --
Corporate realignment and the global imperatives of container shipping --
China's competitive push for global trade: port system development and the role of COSCO --
Appropriate models of port goverance: lessons from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey --
Analysing the performance of seaport clusters --
Ocean cruising: market dynamics, product responses and onshore impacts --
Technology the enabler --
From 'Anyport' to 'Superterminal': conceptual perspectives on containerization and port infrastructure --
High speed at sea: evolution and issues --
Energy from the deep: vessels, technologies and issues --
The environment: towards a new harmony? --
Integrated environmental management of ports and harbours: the European experience - from policy to practice --
Port development and implementation challenges in environmetal management: the case of Venice --
Operational pollution from shipping: sources, environmental impact and global contribution --
trade and environmental management in the Straits of Malacca: the Singapore experience.
Series Title: Ocean management and policy series, 6.
Responsibility: edited by David Pinder and Brian Slack.
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