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

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Recent trends in maritime and port history

Chapter 3 Throughput in the port of Antwerp (1901-2000): an integrated functional approach

Chapter 4 Port traffic in Rotterdam: the competitive edge of a Rhine-port (1880-1914)

Chapter 5 Commentary on the papers of Loyen and Van de Laar

Chapter 6 Port throughput and international trade: have port authorities any degrees of freedom left?

Chapter 7 Commentary on the paper of Janssens, Meersman and Van de Voorde

Chapter 8 Thirty-five years of containerization in Antwerp and Rotterdam: structural changes in the container handling market

Chapter 9 The Kempen Nexus. The spatial-economic development of Rotterdam and Antwerp

Chapter 10 The Antwerp port: elements of spatial planning

Chapter 11 Port and politics in Antwerp: a prudent approach

Chapter 12 The end of the sea

Chapter 13 Commentary on the papers of Seberechts and Molenaar

Chapter 14 Land-use policy in the port of Antwerp (1870-1994)

Chapter 15 Port of Rotterdam: land-use policy during the twentieth century

Chapter 16 Commentary on the papers of Devos and de Goey

Chapter 17 Evolution of the Rotterdam port authority’s position

Chapter 18 “Much ado about nothing?” Reorganising the hiring system and decasualization in the port of Antwerp during the 1960s: motives, obstacles, outcome

Chapter 19 “Dock-work is a skilled profession”. Decasualization and the Rotterdam labour market (1945–1970)

Chapter 20 Commentary on the papers of Vanfraechem and Nijhof

Chapter 21 The first mechanization wave in coal and ore handling as an example of patterns of technological innovation in the port of Rotterdam

Chapter 22 Commentary on the paper of Van Driel

Chapter 23 Opportunities in comparative Antwerp-Rotterdam port history