Analysis of the Inland Port Regionalization Process in Spain

  1. Martínez-Pardo, Ana 1
  2. Garcia-Alonso, Lorena 2
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

  2. 2 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Revista:
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

ISSN: 1877-0428

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 162

Páginas: 228-236

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.SBSPRO.2014.12.203 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Resumen

The aim of this paper is to analyse and compare the ability of the main Spanish containers ports to penetrate into their inlandterritory along the last decade. To achieve this goal we firstly identify the inland origin of the container cargo by considering thelocation of the Spanish companies generating those flows in the peninsula. Then we determine the distribution of flows among th econsidered ports from 2000 to 2010, setting the boundaries of their hinterlands along that period. Finally we use two indexes toassess the evolution of these hinterlands in a complementary way: by their scope and their homogeneity.Furthermore, considering that the inter-port distribution of the traffic can change according to their composition, we repeat theanalysis in a disaggregate way; that is, separately for each one of the main flows (by volume) of the Spanish foreign trade on thebasis of the Combined Nomenclature Clasification.The main results show that the port of Valencia is the one whose hinterland has better evolved: by increasing its scope and byreducing its dependency both geographical as by type of flow. They also highlight that the main centres generating the maritimecontainer flows are closer to this port than to the rest. Also these results allow us to conclude that this port regionalization process hasnot been oblivious to its economic environment but positively influenced by it

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