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Title: Boxed In: How Intermodalism Enabled Destructive Interport Competition

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: What is the appropriate scale for port governance in North America? By standardizing freight technology, containerization has transformed freight trans- portation from a segmented, mode-specific, and regional system into a seamless, intermodal, and global system. The drive to provide global reach, deregula- tion, and increasing capital costs have concentrated carrier ownership in ocean shipping. These carriers have subsequently expanded the effective area of pro- duction for freight delivery by adopting continental strategies for freight move- ments. This scaling up of organization has permitted carriers to overcome ports historical geographical monopoly over their hinterlands and initiate competitive bidding to host the carriers terminal operations. This dissertation examines how this shift led to a particular competition between the ports of New York- New Jersey, Baltimore, and Halifax to host a Maersk-Sea Land terminal in the late 1990s.

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Authors: Potter, Cuz

Institution: Columbia University

Department: Arts and Sciences

Advisor: Peter Marcuse

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: New York, NY

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