Panamá: ‘hub’ de redistribución de vehículos

Instead, Antwerp should use its great resource, land around the docks, to attract shipping-related businesses that would do more in Antwerp than just land cargo. As a port executive explained the new rules, “It’s not a game about tons, it’s a game about employment and diversification, and added value creation.”2 Such talk reflected a dramatic chang

The equation was simple: the bigger the port, the bigger the vessels it could handle and the faster it could empty them, reload them, and send them back out to sea. Bigger ports were likely to have deeper berths, more and faster cranes, better technology to keep track of all the boxes, and better road and rail services to move freight in and out. T

I knew that the history of containerization would show itself to be a far more absorbing topic than readers imagined, and I figured that economists and logistics specialists might be intrigued by my argument that tumbling transport costs were critical in opening the way to what we now call globalization.