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Contextual Port Development: A Theoretical Approach

In: Essays on Port Economics

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  • Ricardo J. Sánchez

    (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC))

  • Gordon Wilmsmeier

    (Edinburgh Napier University)

Abstract

Ports play a critical role as gateways and facilitators of trade. In the last 20 years, ports have undergone an intensive evolution in trying to adapt to a changing environment (change in demand, etc.). The results and models from this evolution process vary by regions and economic contexts, particularly in developing countries. While ports have developed in scale and have consequently taken on the challenges of growing trade flows, access infrastructure to ports or port delivery corridors and institutional developments have lagged behind. The resulting bottlenecks in some way reflect deficits and insufficiencies in the interplay of the economic system and factors defining port development: transport demand, the structure of trade, transport services, institutional capacities etc. A time lag in the resolving of infrastructural bottlenecks, which to a great extent depends on the efficiency and effectiveness of institutions, can cause significant impacts for regional economies. The probability of time lags is especially prevalent in the interaction between the port and the maritime system as the port system has longer, ‘discrete’ development cycles in comparison to the maritime system. This chapter investigates and evaluates port development as the consequence (result) of the interaction of three systems: the economic system, the maritime system, and the port system; and develops a relational approach to port development.

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  • Ricardo J. Sánchez & Gordon Wilmsmeier, 2010. "Contextual Port Development: A Theoretical Approach," Contributions to Economics, in: Pablo Coto-Millán & Miguel Angel Pesquera & Juan Castanedo (ed.), Essays on Port Economics, pages 19-44, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-7908-2425-4_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2425-4_3
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    1. Wilmsmeier, Gordon & Monios, Jason, 2016. "Institutional structure and agency in the governance of spatial diversification of port system evolution in Latin America," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 294-307.
    2. Monios, Jason & Wilmsmeier, Gordon, 2013. "The role of intermodal transport in port regionalisation," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 161-172.
    3. Mohamed-Chérif, Fatima & Ducruet, César, 2016. "Regional integration and maritime connectivity across the Maghreb seaport system," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 280-293.
    4. Wilmsmeier, Gordon & Monios, Jason & Pérez-Salas, Gabriel, 2014. "Port system evolution – the case of Latin America and the Caribbean," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 208-221.
    5. Yiran Sun & Yuqian Wang & Jingci Xie, 2022. "The co-evolution of seaports and dry ports in Shandong province in China under the Belt and Road Initiative," Journal of Shipping and Trade, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 1-27, December.
    6. Wilmsmeier, Gordon & Monios, Jason, 2015. "The production of capitalist “smooth” space in global port operations," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 59-69.
    7. Ng, Adolf K.Y. & Ducruet, César & Jacobs, Wouter & Monios, Jason & Notteboom, Theo & Rodrigue, Jean-Paul & Slack, Brian & Tam, Ka-chai & Wilmsmeier, Gordon, 2014. "Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: between flows and spaces," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 84-96.

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