Wie verankern sich Häfen im Raum?

"Wie verankern sich Häfen im Raum?." disP - The Planning Review, 39(154), pp. 26–27

Drawing on the examples of the seaport of Rotterdam and the International Airport Schiphol, Anton Kreukels, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Utrecht, points out three main issues concerning the relationship of ports and city-regions: (1) Strategic decisions affecting seaports as well as airports are no longer dominated by local actors but related to national and international levels. (2) Increasingly the hub-and-spoke-system, a well-known phenomenon in air traffic networks, is also manifest with regard to seaports. This results in a network with other—often lower ranking—seaports by feeder transport, and in a network with inland terminals cooperating with international seaports like Rotterdam and enabling efficient and reliable container transshipment. (3) Spatial planners have not yet adjusted their planning procedures to this reality of national- and international-based decision-making and hierarchical-organized logistics infrastructures.