My article in the June 1996 issue of this journal considered the relocation of container handling facilities for the largest deep-sea vessels from upstream urban ports to downstream terminals at coastal locations [I]. It was argued in the article that two upstream urban ports (Antwerp and Hamburg) have been unable to relocate their mainport function due principally to territorial (and hence pol…
Port systemdevelopment is a key theme in port geography literature. Recent decades have brought a rise in container terminal development at estuarine, coastal and offshore port locations, in part driven by scale increases in vessel size. This paper examines howcontainer ports located upstreamon rivers use processes of adaptive capacity building in an attempt to remain competitive in port system…
BMI View: Indonesia's crude oil and natural gas production will decline at an average annual rate of 1.7% and 4.0%, respectively, over the next five years, as persistent weakness in global oil prices and myriad above-ground risks slow development of significant new projects and render costly output maintenance programs at existing assets increasingly unpalatable. Indonesia's crude oil a…