Why They are Tall and We are Small! Competition between Antwerp and Rotterdam in the Twentieth Century

Stephan Vanfraechem

Chapter 9 in The World’s Key Industry, 2012, pp 142-157 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers the results of micro-economic and political-institutional research that has been carried out into the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam and investigates whether it can help to understand why the two ports have made quite different choices as regards labour organization on the docks.1 Despite the fact that ports like Antwerp, Hamburg, Bremen, Le Havre and Rotterdam all share the same hinterland and therefore compete with each other for market share, competition between specifically Antwerp and Rotterdam has become an important focus of attention in previous research projects.2

Keywords: Trade Union; City Council; Container Terminal; Shipping Company; Handling Cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137003751_9

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