KEVIN CULLINANE is Chair in Marine Transport & Management at the University of Newcastle, UK. He was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Shipping and Transport Logistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Head of the Centre for International Shipping and Transport at Plymouth University, Senior Partner in his own transport consultancy company and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Transport Studies Unit. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and has been a transport adviser to the governments of Hong Kong, Egypt, Chile and the UK. He

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• CONTENTS: List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - Introduction; D-W.Song & K. Cullinane PART TWO: PORTS IN NORTHERN ASIA Shanghai: a Newly and Rapidly Developing Hub Port; B-L.Song Busan: the Future Logistics Hub of Northeast Asia; D-K.Ryoo & Y-S.Hur Kobe: One of the Most Developed Ports in Japan; H.Inamura, R.Shibsaki &K.Ishiguro - Yokohama: Japan's Next Superport; H.Inamura, R.Shibsaki & K.Ishiguro PART THREE: PORTS IN CENTRAL ASIA Kaoshuing: Pending Direction; T.Chen - Hong Kong: Asia's World Port; P.Wong PART FOUR: PORTS IN SOUTHERN ASIA Singapore: the Premier Hub in Southeast Asia; J.Tongzon - Tanjung Pelepas: the Fitire Regional Hub Port; C.H.Leong PART FIVE: COMPETITION AND CO-OPERATION - Shanghai and Ningbo: In Search of an Identity for the Chanjiang Delta Region; J.Wang & D.Olivier - Hong Kong and Shenzhen: the Nexus in South China; J.Wang & D.Olivier - Singapore & Tamgjung Pelepas: Co-operation or Competition?; J.Tongzon - Busan and Gwangyang: One Country, Two Port System; G-T.Yeo & S-H.Cho - Index