Chapter 2: The geography of maritime trade: globalisation and beyond
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Published:
04 Mar 2020
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16–32
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Social and Political Science 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976640.00006
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This chapter introduces the principles of global trade, and in particular the maritime perspective. It outlines the historic development of maritime trade and transport to the present day, identifies the main trades and geographical regions, and discusses shifts in the structure of sea transport supply and demand from the perspective of transport and trade geography. Finally, the chapter closes with some thoughts on the future of globalisation from the perspective of maritime geography.

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Cover Geographies of Maritime Transport
Geographies of Maritime Transport
Monograph Book
Published:
04 Mar 2020
Print ISBN:
9781788976633
eISBN:
9781788976640
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976640
Pages:
400
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
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Front Matter
Chapter 1: Geographies of maritime transport
Chapter 3: GDP and international seaborne trade: past trends, present breaks and future directions
Chapter 4: Geography versus topology in the evolution of the global container shipping network (1977–2016)
Chapter 5: The geography of commodity flows: the bulk sector
Chapter 6: Commodity supply networks as complex adaptive systems: how commodity and freight markets respond to a supply shock
Chapter 7: The Panama and Suez Canals: re-engineered to be competitive
Chapter 8: Belts and Roads: The geopolitics and transport geography of the China–European seaborne trade
Chapter 9: Short-distance maritime geographies: short sea shipping, RoRo, feeder and inter-island transport
Chapter 10: Transport on international rivers: a model of governance for the commons?
Chapter 11: The changing geography of cruise shipping
Chapter 12: Container shipping: beyond the era of maturity?
Chapter 13: Is there a case for state ownership in ports and shipping?
Chapter 14: Financial operators in port infrastructures: typologies, objectives and global strategies
Chapter 15: Development models and policies for maritime clusters
Chapter 16: Attractiveness of port-centric advanced logistics clusters
Chapter 17: Assessing the strategic role of inland ports in urban freight policy: an application to the port of Brussels
Chapter 18: International shipping and climate change: policy responses and implications for the maritime industry
Chapter 19: Shipping and the environment: how environmental challenges impact on the shipping network
Chapter 20: Arctic sea routes: a new geography for shipping
Index