Abstract
Abstract This paper attempts to illustrate through the case of the Clyde an evolution common to general cargo ports situated at the head of estuaries. Until 1969 trends in the traffic of the West of Scotland ports had shown a marked decline and the need to discover its causes has led to the investigation of the ports’ capacity and performance. Several approaches for assessing efficiency have demonstrated the inadequacies and the under‐utilization of facilities dating from the 19th century, especially in the Upper Reaches. The need to speed up transhipment and make the ports efficient in the different conditions of the 20th century has brought about some changes in the location pattern of their activities. Alterations in the ports’ lay out and the diversion of cargo from up‐river berths have been the main geographical consequences of the effort of rationalisation and modernisation.
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