Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 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 governance: lessons from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Analysing the performance of seaport clusters
Summary
The rapid change of pace in the global economy and the importance of understanding the roles played by port and shipping systems in both enabling and responding to this economic dynamism provides the rationale for this new book
