Placing dryports. Port regionalization as a planning challenge – The case of Hamburg, Germany, and the Süderelbe

Heike Flämig and Markus Hesse

Research in Transportation Economics, 2011, vol. 33, issue 1, 42-50

Abstract: This paper emphasizes dryports in the context of port regionalization. It specifically deals with dryports as a challenge for planning, policy and metropolitan governance in the vicinity of seaports. The starting point is the ongoing spatial shift of terminals, distribution centres and port related developments towards the hinterland of mainports and the associated planning conflicts, raising negative impacts such as congestion, land consumption, land use conflicts and neighbourhood conflicts. The paper discusses these challenges against the empirical case of the Süderelbe-region in the Southern hinterland of the port of Hamburg, Germany. It focuses on the often neglected yet highly controversial issue of land use and related traffic flows. Further it reveals how these conflicts are being managed at the regional level. The main contention of the paper is that port regionalization triggers substantial planning conflicts different from those that are known from core port areas, due to the associated demand for land and infrastructure and also as a result of the often poorly developed institutional framework to solve these problems.

Keywords: Port regionalization; Dryports; Hinterland logistics; Land use conflicts; Governance and planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2011.08.005

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