Brian Slack
Biographic Data
| ID | 287855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Slack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Slack |
| SIGNATURE | SLACK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Containerization
Containerization is an integral feature of globalization. It has facilitated global trade by providing an efficient means of transporting goods intermodally. This has necessitated the transformation of ports and their operations, which has had both negative and positive consequences for port cities. Some of the most important developments have taken place at sea, where an expansion of the scope of services and the size of ships has given rise to …
Facilitating start-ups in port-city innovation ecosystems: A case study of Montreal and Rotterdam
Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: Between flows and spaces
Container freight rates and the role of surcharges
Fifty years of organisational change in container shipping: Regional shift and the role of family firms
Port devolution revisited: The case of regional ports and the role of lower tier governments
Short Sea Shipping: The Need for a Realistic Assessment
Il existe une preoccupation croissante a l'effet que l'augmentation du transport par camion n'est pas soutenable. La plupart des pays du globe reconnaissent les impacts economiques, sociaux, et environnementaux associes a une augmentation du trafic de fret sur les reseaux routiers.Consequemment, le transport maritime cotier et interieur est de plus en plus percu comme une alternative viable. Malgre les avantages inherents du transport maritime su…
Rethinking the Port
Structural change in container port operation and ownership over the past decade has seen the emergence of port-operating transnational corporations (TNCs). The emergence of the port-operating TNC requires a fundamental epistemological shift in reconceptualising the port, from a single, fixed, spatial entity to a network of terminals operating under a corporate logic. This shift is twofold. First, because under port reforms corporate entry occurs…
An Explanation of Port Activity on the South Shore of the Lower St.Lawrence Rive
The study examines the factors that affect variations in port size in the region below Québec City on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The investigation draws upon the results of earlier studies and measures the relationships between six factors and port size. Multiple regression analysis produces a model that accounts for over 90 per cent of size variation in the port System
Les considérations portuaires dans la planification régionale du Québec
Cet article analyse l'importance accordée aux ports de petite et moyenne taille par les représentants des municipalités régionales de comté. Les 43 schémas d'aménagement des MRC riveraines du Saint-Laurent, du Saguenay et de la baie des Chaleurs furent soumis à l'analyse de contenu. Cette démarche permet d'évaluer l'importance du transport maritime au Québec et plus particulièrement le rôle des ports de petite et moyenne taille dans la planificat…
Le rôle et la fonction des ports de petite et moyenne taille dans le système Saint-Laurent
Les études des grands ports dominent la recherche sur le transport maritime. Les ports de petite et moyenne taille sont généralement ignorés ou analysés de façon marginale. Cet article tente de corriger cette lacune. Les pages qui suivent reposent sur une recherche entreprise sur les ports du Québec. Nous analysons la contribution de 28 ports de petite et moyenne taille au commerce maritime du Québec. Nous explorons ensuite les diverses contribut…
Port Service Industries: The case of Montreal
Ports generate significant benefits to local economies. Most major port cities have an important tertiary sector of port service industries. The nature, scale and geographical location of this industry is poorly understood however. This study describes the character and evolution of Montreal's port service industry. It analyses the locational determinants of a wide range of activities that are marine related, and discusses the patterns that are e…
Dealing with globalisation at the regional and local level: The case of contemporary containerization
This paper considers the challenges that ocean container companies face in developing global operations in the ocean and land realms. The recent horizontal and vertical integration of the ocean carriers and the subsequent formation of global networks have taken place for the transport of goods at sea. Conformity in operations is to be expected in the globalisation process; however, there is less conformity of operations on land. The cooperation s…
Port and airport divestiture in Canada: A comparative analysis
Freight and the City: Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, Canada, May 29–June 3, 2001
The challenge of peripheral ports: An Asian perspective
Intermodal freight terminals: Locality and industrial linkages
The areas around eight Canadian intermodal freight terminals form the focus of this study. Two basic research questions are addressed: What is the character of the zones adjacent to the terminals and what is the functional tie between industries located in these zones and the terminals themselves? There are three seaports (Halifax, Montreal and Vancouver), three airports (Dorval‐Montreal, Pearson‐Toronto and Vancouver) and two rail yards (both in…
Terminaux de transport et grande région urbaine [L'intégration de Hong Kong dans les performances de la Chine]: L'intégration de Hong Kong dans les performances de la Chine
The evolution of a regional container port system: The Pearl River Delta
Alliance or acquisition? Strategies for growth in the container shipping industry, the case of CP ships
Satellite terminals: A local solution to hub congestion
Across the pond: Container shipping on the North Atlantic in the era of globalisation
North Sea Ports in Transition: Changing tides. T. Kreukels and E. Wever (eds)
Transportation and spatial cycles: Evidence from maritime systems
La nouvelle geographie de l'industrie aeronautique Europeenne
Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: Between flows and spaces
The challenge of peripheral ports: An Asian perspective
The evolution of a regional container port system: The Pearl River Delta
Rethinking the Port
Structural change in container port operation and ownership over the past decade has seen the emergence of port-operating transnational corporations (TNCs). The emergence of the port-operating TNC requires a fundamental epistemological shift in reconceptualising the port, from a single, fixed, spatial entity to a network of terminals operating under a corporate logic. This shift is twofold. First, because under port reforms corporate entry occurs…
Satellite terminals: A local solution to hub congestion
Transportation and spatial cycles: Evidence from maritime systems
The port service industry in an environment of change
Facilitating start-ups in port-city innovation ecosystems: A case study of Montreal and Rotterdam
Fifty years of organisational change in container shipping: Regional shift and the role of family firms
Across the pond: Container shipping on the North Atlantic in the era of globalisation
Dealing with globalisation at the regional and local level: The case of contemporary containerization
This paper considers the challenges that ocean container companies face in developing global operations in the ocean and land realms. The recent horizontal and vertical integration of the ocean carriers and the subsequent formation of global networks have taken place for the transport of goods at sea. Conformity in operations is to be expected in the globalisation process; however, there is less conformity of operations on land. The cooperation s…
Intermodal freight terminals: Locality and industrial linkages
The areas around eight Canadian intermodal freight terminals form the focus of this study. Two basic research questions are addressed: What is the character of the zones adjacent to the terminals and what is the functional tie between industries located in these zones and the terminals themselves? There are three seaports (Halifax, Montreal and Vancouver), three airports (Dorval‐Montreal, Pearson‐Toronto and Vancouver) and two rail yards (both in…
International cities: Some geographical considerations and a case study of Montreal
The impacts of deregulation and the US-Canada free trade agreement on Canadian transportation modes
Container freight rates and the role of surcharges
Port devolution revisited: The case of regional ports and the role of lower tier governments
Port Service Industries: The case of Montreal
Ports generate significant benefits to local economies. Most major port cities have an important tertiary sector of port service industries. The nature, scale and geographical location of this industry is poorly understood however. This study describes the character and evolution of Montreal's port service industry. It analyses the locational determinants of a wide range of activities that are marine related, and discusses the patterns that are e…
Port and airport divestiture in Canada: A comparative analysis
Services Linked to Intermodal Transportation
Services linked to intermodal transportation
The Evolution of Montreal's Port Service Industry
The growth of Montreal's port service industry is shown to have been accompanied by internal differentiation and elaboration. Of the many business types that comprise the service sector, forwarding appears to have played d particularly important role. The industry is also revealed to have been a catalyst in the economic development of the city, and the expansion of the port was facilitated by the commercial enterprise and political influence of t…
Technology and Seaports in the 1980s
International cities: Some geographical considerations and a case study of Montreal
The Evolution of Montreal's Port Service Industry
The growth of Montreal's port service industry is shown to have been accompanied by internal differentiation and elaboration. Of the many business types that comprise the service sector, forwarding appears to have played d particularly important role. The industry is also revealed to have been a catalyst in the economic development of the city, and the expansion of the port was facilitated by the commercial enterprise and political influence of t…
The port service industry in an environment of change
The impacts of deregulation and the US-Canada free trade agreement on Canadian transportation modes
Gestion intégrée du milieu, conference of L'Association Professionnelle des Géographes du Québec, 21–22 October 1993, Bromont, Québec, Canada
Services Linked to Intermodal Transportation
Services linked to intermodal transportation
Transportation and spatial cycles: Evidence from maritime systems
La nouvelle geographie de l'industrie aeronautique Europeenne
Alliance or acquisition? Strategies for growth in the container shipping industry, the case of CP ships
Satellite terminals: A local solution to hub congestion
Across the pond: Container shipping on the North Atlantic in the era of globalisation
North Sea Ports in Transition: Changing tides. T. Kreukels and E. Wever (eds)
Terminaux de transport et grande région urbaine [L'intégration de Hong Kong dans les performances de la Chine]: L'intégration de Hong Kong dans les performances de la Chine
The evolution of a regional container port system: The Pearl River Delta
Intermodal freight terminals: Locality and industrial linkages
The areas around eight Canadian intermodal freight terminals form the focus of this study. Two basic research questions are addressed: What is the character of the zones adjacent to the terminals and what is the functional tie between industries located in these zones and the terminals themselves? There are three seaports (Halifax, Montreal and Vancouver), three airports (Dorval‐Montreal, Pearson‐Toronto and Vancouver) and two rail yards (both in…
Port and airport divestiture in Canada: A comparative analysis
Freight and the City: Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, Canada, May 29–June 3, 2001
The challenge of peripheral ports: An Asian perspective
Dealing with globalisation at the regional and local level: The case of contemporary containerization
This paper considers the challenges that ocean container companies face in developing global operations in the ocean and land realms. The recent horizontal and vertical integration of the ocean carriers and the subsequent formation of global networks have taken place for the transport of goods at sea. Conformity in operations is to be expected in the globalisation process; however, there is less conformity of operations on land. The cooperation s…
An Explanation of Port Activity on the South Shore of the Lower St.Lawrence Rive
The study examines the factors that affect variations in port size in the region below Québec City on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The investigation draws upon the results of earlier studies and measures the relationships between six factors and port size. Multiple regression analysis produces a model that accounts for over 90 per cent of size variation in the port System
Les considérations portuaires dans la planification régionale du Québec
Cet article analyse l'importance accordée aux ports de petite et moyenne taille par les représentants des municipalités régionales de comté. Les 43 schémas d'aménagement des MRC riveraines du Saint-Laurent, du Saguenay et de la baie des Chaleurs furent soumis à l'analyse de contenu. Cette démarche permet d'évaluer l'importance du transport maritime au Québec et plus particulièrement le rôle des ports de petite et moyenne taille dans la planificat…
Le rôle et la fonction des ports de petite et moyenne taille dans le système Saint-Laurent
Les études des grands ports dominent la recherche sur le transport maritime. Les ports de petite et moyenne taille sont généralement ignorés ou analysés de façon marginale. Cet article tente de corriger cette lacune. Les pages qui suivent reposent sur une recherche entreprise sur les ports du Québec. Nous analysons la contribution de 28 ports de petite et moyenne taille au commerce maritime du Québec. Nous explorons ensuite les diverses contribut…
Port Service Industries: The case of Montreal
Ports generate significant benefits to local economies. Most major port cities have an important tertiary sector of port service industries. The nature, scale and geographical location of this industry is poorly understood however. This study describes the character and evolution of Montreal's port service industry. It analyses the locational determinants of a wide range of activities that are marine related, and discusses the patterns that are e…
Maritime Ports and Logistics (28 works) · Engineering (21 works) · Business (20 works) · Geography (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (13 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Transport and Economic Policies (9 works) · Economic Zones and Regional Development (8 works)