TITLE

Making Biggest Bigger: Port Metro Vancouver's 21st Century Re-Structuring -- Global Meets Local at the Asia Pacific Gateway

AUTHOR(S)

Ginnell, Kevin; Smith, Patrick; Oberlander, H. Peter

PUB. DATE

December 2008

SOURCE

Canadian Political Science Review;2008, Vol. 2 Issue 4, p76

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Vancouver's Port is Canada's biggest. On January 1, 2008, it got bigger � restructuring the Port of Vancouver, the Fraser River Port Authority and the North Fraser Port Authority, into a single Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, marketed (as of June, 2008) as Port Metro Vancouver.[1] This new entity was the culmination of a process of divestiture, re-organizational adjustment, shift to market orientation and consolidation that has played out over several decades across Canada's ports. This article examines some of this recent history � both in terms of (i) divestiture and increased market orientation and (ii) more recently, major port consolidation � and governmental responses to ensure Vancouver remains Canada's busiest port and a central part of the country's Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. (APGCI)

ACCESSION #

42114661

Tags: HARBORS;  PORT districts;  MARKET orientation;  MARKETING strategy;  STRATEGIC planning

 

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