Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction: applying the mobilities paradigm to the maritime sector

Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier

GEOGRAPHIC AND INSTITUTIONAL MOBILITIES

2. Critical geographies of the ocean: mobilities, placefulness and maritime relationalism

Basil Germond and Celine Germond-Duret

3. Ports as capitalist spaces

Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier

4. How people green the port

Kristianne Hendricks and Peter Hall

ECONOMIC MOBILITIES

5. Off shore: the sustainable city and its logistical costs

Boris Vormann and Patrick DeDauw

6. Costs and benefits of mobility: the case of Chinese seafarers

Lijun Tang and Gang Chen

7. ‘Cruise to the Edge’. How 1970s prog-rock dinos found a safe haven on the cruise ship

Markus Hesse

SUSTAINABLE MOBILITIES

8. Ballast water and harmful aquatic organism mobilities

Matej David and Stephan Gollasch

9. Mobilities of waste, value and materials in the shadow of the maritime transport system: a case study of the Pakistani ship breaking industry

Lars Bomhauer-Beins and Anke Strüver

INDUCED AND UNPRODUCTIVE MOBILITIES

10. Unproductive mobilities and maritime system capacity

Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier

11. Before the "hangover"

Gordon Wilmsmeier, Marta Gonzalez-Aregall and Ricardo J. Sánchez

12. The economic development effect of a transhipment port: the case of Gioia Tauro

Mario Genco, Emanuela Sirtori and Silvia Vignetti

13. The unproductive and induced mobility of empty container repositioning in peripheral regions

Jason Monios and Yuhong Wang

About the Author

Jason Monios is Associate Professor in Maritime Logistics at Kedge Business School, Marseille, France. His research areas include intermodal transport and logistics, port system evolution, collaboration and integration in port hinterlands, port governance and policy, institutional and regulatory settings and port sustainability.

Gordon Wilmsmeier holds the Kühne Professorial Chair in Logistics at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as Economic Affairs Officer in the Infrastructure Services Unit at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC).