CONTENTS List of figures xiii List of plates xvii List of tables xix Preface. xxi 1 Spatial approaches to port development by D. Hilling and B. S. Hoyle 1 2 Seaport development: some questions of scale by J. H. Bird21 3 Ship-operator port-routeing behaviour and the development process by M. C. Willingale 43 4 Boxes, ports, and places without ports by H. C. Brookfield 61 5 Port problems and small-island economies: the case of the South-west Pacific by A. C. Dunbar-Nobes 81 6 Japanese seaports: economic development and state intervention by P. J. Rimmer99 7 Laissez-faireism in port development: the case of Hong Kong by David K. Y. Chu and T. N. Chiu 135 8The development of the Nigerian ports system: crisis management in response to rapid economic change by B. Dickinson161 9Oil-dependent economies and port development: the Gulf states of the Middle East by A. R. Walker 179 10Port development in the People's Republic of China: readjustment under programmes of accelerated economic growth T. N. Chiu and David K. Y. Chu199 11Seaport development and the role of the state: the case of Poland by Zbigniew Taylor 217 12Developmental effects of geopolitically located ports by E. Stern and Y. Hayuth 239 13The restructuring of the Severn Estuary ports. by D. Hilling257 14Planned port industrialisation and the quest for upward economic transition: an examination of development strategies for the Dutch delta. by D. A. Finder 277 15The port-industrial complex of Fos: a regional growth centre? by J. N. Tuppen303 16Interport competition in an integrated spatial system: Genoa-Voltri and Savona-Vado in northern Italy by E. Biagini327 17The overwhelming dominance of the port of Vancouver on Canada's west coast. by C. N. Forward343 18Seaport systems and agricultural exports in a developing regional economy: the sugarports of Queensland, Australia by B. S. Hoyle361 19The structural evolution of seaports and transport systems in Peru by J. B. Chapman 391 20The role of seaports in the industrial decentralisation process: the case of South Africa by B. Wiese415 21Changing export patterns of Liberia's seaports. by W. R. Stanley 435 22Seaports and development strategies by B. S. Hoyle and D. Hilling 461 Index. 471