
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.275155
handle: 11568/161674
There is world-wide race among terminal operating Companies or large shipping Companies to corner commercial ports and hub ports.The aim is: 1- to build up merger policies, 2- to avoid being dependent on the performance of a single port location, 3- to acquire hub and commercial strategic terminals which will take account of changes in the directions of international trade in order to make maximum savings for the routes and achieve a monopoly of the great geographical regions (strategic networks). In this complex context we have the formation of hub and spoke systems with a fast growth of feeding. The shipping Companies best equipped and best financed will take control of most of the rich container market. On this analysis we can outline a model on the basis of which we can understand the rapid evolution of the world situation and the key points for identifying the possibilities of ports.
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