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Contents: Preface; Introduction, Theo E. Notteboom, César Ducruet and Peter W. de Langen; Part I Conceptualization of Ports in Proximity: Revisiting inter-port relationships under the new economic geography research framework, César Ducruet, Theo E. Notteboom and Peter W. de Langen; Ports in proximity, proximity in ports: towards a typology, Peter V. Hall and Wouter Jacobs; Port regions and globalization, César Ducruet; Path dependency and contingency in the development of multi-port gateway regions and multi-port hub regions, Theo E. Notteboom. Part II The Governance of Ports in Proximity: Proximity and port governance, Brian Slack, Elisabeth Gouvernal and Jean Debrie; Regional integration and maritime range, Arnaud Lemarchand and Olivier Joly; Does the EU port policy strategy encompass ’proximity’?, Athanasios A. Pallis and Patrick Verhoeven. Part III The North-American Case: Corridors and Gateways: Gateways are more than ports: the Canadian example of cooperation among stakeholders, Robert J. McCalla; Port-hinterland divergence along the North-American eastern seaboard, Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Changqian Guan; Competitiveness of green gateways: a blueprint for Canada, Claude Comtois and Brian Slack. Part IV The European Case: Coordination in a Competitive Market: A best practice in cross-border port cooperation: Copenhagen Malmö port, Peter W. de Langen and Michiel H. Nijdam; rethinking proximity: new opportunities for port development. The case of Dunkirk, Antoine Frémont and Valérie Lavaud-Letilleul; Italian port authorities approaching the post-reform: the Liguran case, Claudia Caballini, Laura Carpaneto and Francesco Parola; A geographical perspective on port performance in the United Kingdom, 1999–2007, Anthony Beresford and Stephen Pettit; External influences on the Humber estuary ports, the largest concentration of activity in the UK, John Mangan, Amy Proctor and David Gibbs. Part V The Asian Case: Major Changes in Port Systems’ Hierarchies: Port competition paradigms and Japanese port clusters, Masato Shinohara; Port challenge in Northeast Asia: Korea’s 2-hub port strategy, Sung-Woo Lee and Geun-Sub Kim; Hong Kong in transition from a hub port city to a global supply chain management centre, James J. Wang; List of references; Index.

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