ABSTRACT
This chapter explores whether advanced transportation services firms such as ship finance, insurance and maritime law, and logistics consulting concentrate within gateway city-regions, or whether they agglomerate on some other basis. It reviews literature that has documented the spatial and economic evolution of port cities in the context of global networks. Traditional conceptions of port and port-related services have focused on services to ships and services to cargo. The chapter examines the North American case using quantitative data on the location and network connectivity of specialized maritime advanced service providers. It presents a grounded case study of Vancouver, Canada and explores the addressed relationships in more qualitative terms. The chapter identifies port-logistics sector workers and compares the occupational profile of the port-logistics sector in different Gateway city-region classes. It also explores the geography of advanced maritime services in North America, and what extent these high valued, transport-related services agglomerate and cluster in gateways.
