Port Foreland and Hinterland

There are two types of port hinterland:

• The fundamental (main) hinterland is the space over which a port has almost the exclusivity for providing its services.
• The competition margins are the areas where other ports are in competition. The fundamental hinterland is being challenged by intense port competition with a port regionalization mainly composed a competition margins and few fundamental hinterlands.

The foreland is measured by the share of a port, or a group of ports, being taken over their foreland relatively to the forelands of other ports. It defines the interactions of a port with elements of the global economy.

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