1st Edition

Maritime Mobilities

Edited By Jason Monios, Gordon Wilmsmeier Copyright 2018
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The central concerns of mobilities research – exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector. Challenges to the environment, attempts at more sustainable practices, changes in the geoeconomic system, political power, labour, economic development and governance issues are all among the topics... Read more

INTRODUCTION





1. Introduction: applying the mobilities paradigm to the maritime sector



Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier



 



GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL MOBILITIES





2. Critical geographies of the ocean: mobilities, placefulness and maritime relationalism



Basil Germond and Celine Germond-Duret





3. Ports as capitalist spaces



Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier





4. How people green the port



Kristianne Hendricks and Peter Hall





 



ECONOMIC MOBILITIES





5. Off shore: the sustainable city and its logistical costs



Boris Vormann and Patrick DeDauw





6. Costs and benefits of mobility: the case of Chinese seafarers



Lijun Tang and Gang Chen





7. ‘Cruise to the Edge’. How 1970s prog-rock dinos found a safe haven on the cruise ship



Markus Hesse





 



SUSTAINABLE MOBILITIES





8. Ballast water and harmful aquatic organism mobilities



Matej David and Stephan Gollasch





9. Mobilities of waste, value and materials in the shadow of the maritime transport system: a case study of the Pakistani ship breaking industry



Lars Bomhauer-Beins and Anke Strüver





 



INDUCED AND UNPRODUCTIVE MOBILITIES





10. Unproductive mobilities and maritime system capacity



Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier





11. Before the "hangover"



Gordon Wilmsmeier, Marta Gonzalez-Aregall and Ricardo J. Sánchez





12. The economic development effect of a transhipment port: the case of Gioia Tauro



Mario Genco, Emanuela Sirtori and Silvia Vignetti





13. The unproductive and induced mobility of empty container repositioning in peripheral regions



Jason Monios and Yuhong Wang

Biography

Jason Monios is Associate Professor in Maritime Logistics at Kedge Business School, Marseille, France. His research areas include intermodal transport and logistics, port system evolution, collaboration and integration in port hinterlands, port governance and policy, institutional and regulatory settings and port sustainability.





Gordon Wilmsmeier holds the Kühne Professorial Chair in Logistics at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as Economic Affairs Officer in the Infrastructure Services Unit at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC).