Ports, Cities, and Global Supply ChainsJames Jixian Wang Throughout this book, concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and transport geography are applied to offer an in-depth understanding of the processes underlying global supply chains and associated spatial and functional dynamics in port-cities. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Appropriate Concepts | 11 |
1 | 18 |
Global Supply Chain Integration and Competitiveness of Port Terminals | 27 |
1 Measures of terminal supply chain integration | 32 |
The Terminalisation of Seaports | 41 |
Reassessing Porthinterland Relationships in the Context | 51 |
1 | 53 |
1 | 107 |
Index of concentration Gini coefficient for the ports in | 111 |
4 | 114 |
5 | 117 |
1 | 123 |
Conflicts and Opportunities | 141 |
A Metageography of PortCity Relationships | 157 |
4 | 166 |
from chains to networks | 54 |
2 | 59 |
5 | 61 |
The Development of Global Container Transhipment Terminals | 69 |
1 | 70 |
1 | 73 |
3 | 77 |
5 | 84 |
How to Make the | 89 |
Market share of gateway traffic in different Med port ranges | 91 |
Shipping Line Concentration | 105 |
1 Most representative portcities | 172 |
Chinese Portcities in Global Supply Chains | 173 |
The Economic Performance of Seaport Regions | 187 |
Valueadded per ton in four Belgian ports | 190 |
1 Portrelated industries | 202 |
CORPORATE PERSPECTIVES ON THE INSERTION OF PORTS | 203 |
Which Link In Which Chain? Inserting Durban into Global | 221 |
Environmental profile of selected ports 2004 | 236 |
References | 247 |
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Other editions - View all
Ports, Cities, and Global Supply Chains James Wang,Daniel Olivier,Theo Notteboom,Brian Slack Limited preview - 2017 |
Ports, Cities, and Global Supply Chains James Wang,Daniel Olivier,Theo Notteboom,Brian Slack No preview available - 2016 |
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