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World maritime cities: from which cities do container shipping companies make decisions?
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| In recentdecades,manyresearchershavedevotedthemselvestothestudyofworldcities.Oneofthe mostimportantcontributionstoworldcityresearchhascomefromthe GlobalisationandWorldCities StudyGroup&Network(GaWC-LoughboroughUniversity).GaWCfocusesonexternalrelationships between worldcities.Ithasanalysedtheworldcitynetworkandthehierarchybetweencitiesinvarious sectors, butprimarilyinadvancedproducerservices(accountancy,advertising,banking/financeand law).PreviousstudieshaveidentifiedLondon,NewYork,ParisandTokyoashigh-levelglobalservice centres, followedcloselybyChicago,Frankfurt,HongKong,LosAngeles,MilanandSingapore.Thusfar, however,themaritimesectorhasbeenneglectedintheidentificationandanalysisofglobalcities.The main purposeofthepresentarticleistofillthisvoid. The firstpartofouranalysisincludesastudyoftheliteratureonworldcitiesandanexaminationof the criteriaandmethodsonwhichpreviousresearchhasbeenbased.InpartII,weexploretheworld maritimecitynetworkbyapplyingandinterpretingtheGaWCmethods.Foracitytoberecognisedasa world maritimecity,itmusthaveapresenceofcontainershippingcompaniesandcontainerterminal operators.Asforthecitysoperationalcapacity,thatisdeterminedbytheextentoflinkagesbetween those containershippingcompaniesandcontainerterminaloperators,ontheonehand,andtherestof the worldmaritimemarket,ontheotherhand.ThecollectedempiricalevidenceshowsthatHongKong, Hamburg,Singapore,Shanghai,Tokyo,NewJersey/NewYork,Bangkok/LaemChabangandLondonare the worldsleadingmaritimecities.Furthermore,analysisofinterrelationsinthesecitiesbetween shippingcompaniesandcontainerterminalhasindicatedHongKong,HamburgandNewYorktobethe main nodesintheworldmaritimecitynetwork |
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English
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Transport policy. - Oxford
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Oxford
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2009
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0967-070X
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16
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(2009)
, p. 240-250
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000272057300005
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