World Shipping and Port Development

List of Figures List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Depth and Diversity in Analysing the Shipping and Ports Industries; T-W.Lee & K.Cullinane The Rise of Container Transport in East Asia; M.Wang Network Economies of Global Alliances in Liner Shipping: The Case of Japanese Liner Shipping Companies; S.Yoshida, J.H.Yang & K.H.Kim Choice of Financing and Governance Structures in the Transport Industry: Theory and Practices; S.H.X.Gong, M.Firth & K.Cullinane A Fuzzy Set Theory Approach to Flagging out: Towards a New Chinese Shipping Policy; H.E.Haralambides & J.Yang Deregulation, Competitive Pressures and the Emergence of Intermodalism; S.Everett Good Governance and Ports as Tools of Economic Development: Are They Compatible? M.R.Brooks Privatization Trends at the World's Top-Hundred Container Ports; A.Baird A New Paradigm of Hub Ports in the Logistics Era; D-W.Song & T-W.Lee Key Success Factors for Transshipment Hubs: The Case of the Port of Singapore; J.Tongzon The Logistics Strategy of Japanese Ports: The Case of Kobe and Osaka; K.Miyashita Port Financing and Pricing in the EU: Theory, Politics and Reality; H.E.Haralambides, A.Verbeke, E.Musso & M.Benacchio A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Container Ports in China and the Implications for their Development; K.Cullinane, S.L.Cullinane & T.Wang Index