By Hercules E. Haralambides

Port Management brings jointly a suite of seminal papers from Palgrave's magazine, Maritime Economics and Logistics. it's a dynamic quantity, containing contributions from prime authors with diversified disciplinary backgrounds, representing an unlimited nearby range. the amount presents authoritative and well timed investigations into key issues in port economics, together with learn on: international offer chains, port networks, selection modelling, port infrastructure, pageant, port pricing, potency in ecu seaports, and an research of chinese language box ports.
 
It is key studying for port pros, coverage makers, students, and researchers drawn to port economics.

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Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation. : Prentice Hall. , Dicken, P. and J. Henderson (2004). Globalizing regional development: a global production networks perspective. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29: 468–484. J. (2006). Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World. Fordham University Press: New York. Cullinane, K, Khanna, M and Song, D-W (1999). How big is beautiful: economies of scale and the optimal size of containership. Proceedings of the IAME 1999 conference.

Guest Editorial: Transportation and Global Production Networks. Growth and Change 37: 599–609. Lago, A, Malchow, M and Kanafani, A (2001). An analysis of carriers’ schedules and the impact on port selection, Proceedings of the IAME 2001 conference. Hong Kong, pp. 123–137. Levinson, M. (2006). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press: Princeton. Lim, S-M (1998). Economies of scale in container shipping. Maritime Policy and Management 25: 361–373.

This then will add relevance to any study on both carrier and port choice. Effective review of the supply chain events can offer insight into port selection which without such method would remain a guessing game. A good example of this can be understood through the examination of imported construction steel into Australian ports in New South Wales. In this case the importer/merchant has control over shipping and routes goods with carriers that call at a regional port we shall call ‘port NC’ where they have a major warehouse facility.

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