Portus 28 – October 2014
LIGHTHOUSE index
New neighbors in the Caribbean port cities: invasive species
They arrived by accident at the beginning of this century. They found a paradise in this region and decided to stay and multiply themselves. At first glance they are lovely and are in almost every aquarium in the world, but ...
Los puertos latinoamericanos y la perspectiva multipolar del siglo XXI
Joseph Samuel Nye, geopolitólogo y profesor de la Kennedy School of Government de la Universidad de Harvard, desarrolló los conceptos de interdependencia asimétrica y compleja en las relaciones transnacionales y la política mundial, señalando que la distribución del poder entre ...
Ports networking: the Morocco knocks major
Overall traffic Moroccan ports rose above 22% during the first half of 2014 over 60 million tonnes were shipped, placing the Sharifi port system just below the Grand seaport of Le Havre, for example, in the ranking of the world's ...
Do mega-ships need mega-ports?
Mega-ships are here to stay, if you like it or not. The last decade has seen a doubling of the average size of the containership. The “who-has-the-biggest?”-competition is on steam and Maersk is currently in the lead. Their Triple E-ships ...
Rotterdam’s urban metabolism. Project atelier to intertwine the flows of port and city
This column aims at discovering harbours from a landscape perspective, which means extending our view beyond the delimited harbour area towards the surrounding landscape of which the harbour is a constitutive part. Let us take a detour to Rotterdam, where ...
Maritime networks in space and time
The international workshop “Maritime networks in space and time” (Paris, 16-18 June 2014) is probably the first event of the kind, diverting from the classic maritime conferences held in history, economics, and geography for instance. Gathering about 50 researchers coming ...