Struggling for Leadership: Antwerp-Rotterdam Port Competition between 1870 –2000

Abstract

Recent trends in maritime and port history.- Throughput in the port of Antwerp (1901-2000): an integrated functional approach 29.- Port traffic in Rotterdam: the competitive edge of a Rhine-port (1880-1914).- Commentary.- Port throughput and international trade: have port authorities any degrees of freedom left?.- Commentary.- Thirty-five years of containerization in Antwerp and Rotterdam: structural changes in the container handling market.- The Kempen nexus. The spatial-economic development of Rotterdam and Antwerp.- The Antwerp port: elements of spatial planning.- Port and politics in Antwerp: a prudent approach.- The end of the sea.- Commentary.- Land-use policy in the port of Antwerp (1870-1994).- Port of Rotterdam: land-use policy during the twentieth century.- Commentary.- Evolution of the Rotterdam port authority's position.- Much ado about nothing? Reorganising the hiring system and decasualization in the port of Antwerp during the 1960s: motives, obstacles, outcome.- Dock-work is a skilled profession. Decasualization and the Rotterdam labour market (1945-1970).- Commentary.- The first mechanization wave in coal and ore handling as an example of patterns of technological innovation in the port of Rotterdam.- Commentary.- Opportunities in comparative Antwerp-Rotterdam port history.- Annex.- Maps of port of Antwerp and Rotterdam.