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Counterbalancing peripherality and concentration: an analysis of the UK container port system

Over the last four decades, the UK container port system experienced a shift to and concentration in the southeast of the country, close to the English Channel. At the same time, traditional ports in the north and centre of the country have lost importance, despite overall container traffic growth. This paper analyses the evolution of container traffic at UK ports, mapping the patterns of container trade relations, focusing on regional trade specialisations as well as transshipment patterns. The paper identifies a potential deconcentration of container traffic within the UK port system, related to a shift in gateway region for UK trade, increasingly being transshipped through continental ports rather than the traditional southeastern UK ports, as well as a shift in role at UK ports from gateways to transshipment hubs. This deconcentration has potential benefit for regional UK ports, many of which are pursuing significant port expansions to take advantage of these trends. These ports seek to reposition them selves within an emerging feeder market that could reduce their peripherality embedded by the current concentrated UK port and infrastructure system. The paper thus raises questions about port policy and both public and private sector responses to a changing UK port geography.

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Maritime Policy & Management: The flagship journal of international shipping and port research
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ATC LO WIL c
Penerbit
United Kingdom : Taylor and Francis.,
Deskripsi Fisik
19 p.
Bahasa
English
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Tipe Media
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online resource
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Vol. 40, No. 2, 116–132
Subjek
UK
Maritime Policy & Management
container port system
Counterbalancing peripherality
concentration
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