ABSTRACT
Seaports in various locations of the world are experiencing increasing growth in traffic volumes, and in related needs of expanding capacity, hard as well as soft. Decision-taking and financial independence on the one hand and unity of command and integrated commercial management on the other hand, are the main dimensions used to distinguish between port organisational models with an impact on container handling supply and demand. With respect to decision-taking and financial independence, five organisational types are distinguished: sea-port authority bodies under direct national jurisdiction; sea-port authority bodies under sub-national jurisdiction; self-governing public sea-port authorities; privately owned and operated sea-port authorities; and corporate sea-port authorities. The chapter performs a literature review on existing analyses of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in seaports, and on methods that can be applied to deal with the analysis. It also introduces the data used for the analysis. Then the results of the in-depth analysis of each of the selected PPP dimensions are presented.
