World Ports Around the Oceans: The History and Future of Seaports, Energy Transition, and Globalization (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798765165966)

Shipping, ports and trade are essential to humanity. Oceans, seas and rivers cover more than two-thirds of the Earth's surface. Since ancient times, people transported their goods across the water in rafts, canoes and sailboats. Now we sail across the oceans with container ships, bulk carriers and tankers. Indeed, ninety percent of world trade moves from port to port by ship. Ports are the hubs of the global society.

But ports and world trade are easily disrupted: a shipping accident in the Suez Canal, the COVID-19 pandemic, wars, climate change, geopolitical tensions. What happens in world ports? How did they originate? How have they developed? How did China's ports expand so dramatically? Can ports continue to grow indefinitely? What are they doing about climate change and energy transition? What will the maritime world look like in the future?

These are questions that Aafke Steenhuis and Jan Joost Teunissen asked over the past ten years as they traveled to strategic and colorful ports in the world, speaking with port experts, economists, writers and sociologists, and uncovering the facinating ecosystem of ports including Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Dubai, Alexandria, Cape Town, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Marseille, Genoa, Los Angeles and Santos.

Author: Aafke Steenhuis,Jan Joost Teunissen
ISBN-13: 9798765165966
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2026
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d