By Reginald Loyen, Erik Buyst, Greta Devos
The current quantity includes the court cases of a world convention at the financial heritage of the seaports of Antwerp and Rotterdam (1870-2000). This venue was once held at Antwerp on 10-11 may well 2001 and used to be hosted by means of the Antwerp Port Authority. This overseas convention geared toward confronting the advance of either ports. throughout the final century and a part, financial development within the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam has been stunning. Maritime financial historians, economists and geographers alike have investigated the advance of either ports generally, yet individually. up to now, just a restricted variety of makes an attempt were made to examine Rotterdam-Antwerp port historical past from a comparative viewpoint. The papers offered on the convention offer a tough place to begin to - yes how and why either ports reacted otherwise to almost an analogous fiscal and political stimuli. by means of bringing jointly either historians, economists and attorneys with varied fields of curiosity, we've got tried to place the historical past of the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam in a broader foreign and comparative perspective.
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Jarvis 1999, 13-34). g. Layton 1981,23-31). Generally speaking, two kinds of port transition models can be distinguished: regarding port systems and regarding individual ports. g. establishment of a port hierarchy). Quite well known in that respect is the model by (Taaffe, Morril and Gould, 1963). From literature four influential and useful examples of single port transition models can be identified: the Anyport model (Bird 1971, 66-75), the organizational model (UNCTAD 1992,47-50), the interface model (Hoyle 1988,3-17) and the Rotterdam model (Van Klink 1995, 17-23).
Exert policing duties and collect port dues. Contrary to other kinds of port authorities, it will not engage in the actual loading and unloading of ships, nor in storing and transporting commodities. This task is left to the private sector. These companies can be summarized under the heading "port users". The real consumers of port services are however the original producer and the final consignees of the shipped goods. The consumers of port services shouldn't be confused with port users like shipping agents, mercantile houses, stevedores, shipowners, pilots, tugs, inland carriers, industrial plants, ....
What do we gain by establishing the growth of a port's throughput? The cargo passing through the port tells us a lot about the domestic and the international economic state of affairs. The port is after all, the junction where cargo-flows from the hinterland to the foreland and vice versa converge, group and split up again. Since throughput is an indication of a nation's or a region's prosperity, seaports should be the obvious foci of attention for any economic historian, not just for those interested in the "maritime dimension".