This book aims to highlight the interrelations between maritime ports, inland corridors and logistics. Inland corridors could be defined as major arteries for inland transportation from and to the maritime port. They link together one or several ports located on the maritime range with one or several major inland metropolitan areas.

Cyrille Bertelle is Full Professor in Computer Science at LITIS, Normandy University - Le Havre, France. He is also Director of SFLog, Research Federation in Logistics, Normandy. His current research interests and projects concern Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation, Complex Networks for Territorial Intelligence and Logistics Systems, and Blockchains for Smart Ports.

Nathan Gouin has a PhD in Geography and Planning from the University of Rouen in 2020. He worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow to coordinate the Paris Megaregion project and since 2021 he has been Research Engineer at the University of Le Havre, in charge of the scientific steering of the GIS Institute for a smart logistics in Seine Valley. His scientific work focuses on political geography, regionalization and inter-territorial cooperation.

Antoine Frémont is Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, holding the chair of transport, flows and sustainable mobility. His research focuses on maritime transport, containerization and globalization; the organization of intermodal transport chains; combined transport and modal shift in Europe; and regional planning of metropolitan logistics.

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

Antoine Frémont, Cyrille Bertelle and Nathan Gouin

1. Geography of Metropolitan Gateways: Maritime Metropolises, Inland Maritime Corridors, and Maritime Regions and Ranges

Antoine Frémont

2. Intermodal Corridors and Sea-Land Logistics: What Role Should Regulation Play?

Francesco Parola

3. Île-de-France: A Natural but Contested Hinterland for Haropa Port

Ronan Kerbiriou

4. Intermodal Transport Versus Road Transport: The Benefits of a Cost-Based Analysis of Activities in the Seine Corridor

Patrick Niérat and Sacha Rybaltchenko

5. The New Le Havre-Serqueux-Gisors-Paris Rail Freight Corridor: Is France on Track to Improve the Competitiveness of the Port of Le Havre?

Laurent Guihéry

6. Logistics and the Globalization of the Automotive Supply Chain: A Case Study on the Parts Consolidation Centres in the Seine Valley Corridor

David Guerrero, Adolf K.Y. Ng and Hidekazu Itoh

7. Competitiveness and Geopolitics of Port Corridors

Laurent Livolsi and Christelle Camman

8. The Seine Valley Axis: A Controversial Part of the Trans-European Transport Network

Antoine Beyer

9. Governing Logistics Corridors - Scope and Limitations of Inter-Territorial Coordination: A Case Study of the Seine Valley

Nathan Gouin and Anraud Brennetot

10. The Corridors of Landlocked Ethiopia

François H. Guiziou

11. Enhancing global supply chain performance by optimizing port resources

Gülgün Alpan, Hamza Bouzekri and Éric Sanlaville

12. Blockchains for Smart Ports

Claude Duvallet, Cyrille Bertelle and Mongetro Going

13. Responding to Navigation Challenges on the St. Lawrence River Corridor: The Role of Information Technologies

Brian Slack, Claude Comtois and Philippe de Champlain

14. Simulation Tools for the Flows of Goods in the Seine Corridor Using a Multimodal Network

Julius Bañgate, Dominique Fournier, Eric Sanlaville, and Thibaut Démare

15. Simulation of Modal Shift and Multimodality on the Seine Axis

Aïcha Ferjani, Yasmina Essaghir, Amina El Yaagoubi, Jaouad Boukachour, Claude Duvallet and Mohamed Nezar Abourraja

16. Developing Sustainable Port Areas: Economies of Scale and Scope in the Context of a Corridor-Sized Port

Marie-Laure Baron

17. Resilience, Adaptation, and Adaptability: The Impacts of Climate Change on River Corridors

Clément Lavigne and Sébastien Dupray

18. Building a Legal Framework for the Production and Use of Hydrogen in Transport and Logistics

Valérie Bailly-Hascoët

19. Are Corridors a Key Asset for the Deployment of Short Food Supply Chains?

Roland Condor and Claude Duvallet

20. Automated Deliveries: The Future of Urban Logistics?

Jakob Puchinger

Index