This chapter describes the governance structures of the port authorities of the major Dutch seaports. This description is based on a framework to assess the fit between the environment, governance model, strategy and capabilities of the port authority. Changes in the port environment have triggered changes in the governance model and strategy of seaports. For the three major Dutch seaports, reg…
Many people helped us in various ways in the preparation of this book. First of all, we are grateful to Dr. John Ford, from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, for his suggestion that we develop the dynamic network simplex algorithm and his comments on this research. We thank Professor Hu, the head of the Robotics Research Group at the Universi…
The ever-changing environment in which ports operate has put strong pressure on the role of port authorities. The evolution of port governance has so far mainly been analysed in qualitative terms, through expert knowledge and case studies. This article fills a research gap in providing a quantitative analysis of port governance in Europe, using data from a major survey, which the European Sea P…