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Source: Base map from Google Earth. The Port Elizabeth intermodal complex is part of the facilities of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. This is where in 1956, containerization began. The complex comprises two major terminals; Maher Terminal (acquired by the German financial firm RREEF in 2007

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2008. The purpose of a container overhead gantry crane is to position containers along a linear stacking yard. Although the yard’s length can, in theory, be unlimited, the width of the stacking depends on the width of the crane, but six containers in width is a

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2006. A straddler is an important piece of equipment in containerized port operations. They are mainly used to pick up or drop off containers dockside to and from nearby container stacking areas and are thus the last (of first) link in a container terminal. The reason

Source: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2010. Container cranes, also known as portainers, require a high level of capital equipment, such as the above post-Panamax crane at the APM terminal (Maersk) at the port of New York (Newark facilities). It was manufactured by ZPMC (Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company), which is the

Source: data collected from port authorities and regional port associations. Only consider ports with traffic above 500,000 TEU in 2020. The world container port system is characterized by a high level of traffic concentration, with the 25 largest container ports handling more than 49.8% of global traffic in 2020. The

Source: Adapted from Drewry Shipping Consultants. Four major port holdings have substantial global assets of about 45 dedicated port terminals each; APM Terminals (controlled by the Danish maritime shipper Maersk; 47 terminals), Dubai Ports World (DPW; 48 terminals), Hutchison Port Holdings (Hong Kong; 52 terminals), and the Port of Singapore

Source: adapted from The World Bank (2007) Port Reform Toolkit, Second Edition. There are five main port management models based on the respective responsibility of the public and private sectors. They include the public service port, the tool port, the landlord port, the corporatized port, and the private service port.

Source: Adapted from P. Cariou. Port management lecture notes. Port activities cover a wide range of functions. For instance, maritime access involves activities such as the dredging of access channels, the construction of breakwaters (if required), the setting of vessel traffic services to help navigation to approach and navigate within

Source: American Association of Port Authorities. The position of Rotterdam as the world’s largest port was unparalleled for decades, a rank it held until 2000. It was then overtaken by Shanghai, Singapore, and Tianjin; a large share of the world’s major ports is now in East Asia. The main factors