Ports as Nodal Points in a Global Transport System

This volume presents the report of the Pacem in Maribus Conference on Ports as Nodal Points in the Global Transport System held in Rotterdam in August 1990. Ports are one of the principal interfaces between land and sea, and the main entry and exit points in the global transport system which links the world''s nations with more than 70 per cent of the Earth''s surface. Discussion centred around th...