Restructuring Governance of New Zealand Seaports: Geographical Impacts of Corporatisation |
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| Authors: | Ali Memon Markus J Milne John W Selsky |
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| Institution: | Professor of Environmental Management and Planning, Environment, Society and Design Division, Lincoln University;Professor of Accounting, School of Business, University of Otago;Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Melbourne and Visiting Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts-Boston |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the rationales for and geographical outcomes of the post 1988 changes in port governance in New Zealand and their implications from a policy perspective. The study offers insights into the interrelationship between global processes and local places in the context of economic deregulation, a devolved infrastructure planning mandate and intra‐industry competitive dynamics. A trend towards port concentration consequent on globalisation has been long recognised in the international literature. In New Zealand, the trend towards port concentration can be described as selective, limited primarily to import trade while export trade is more dispersed. This new port geography is part of wider political and socio‐economic development geographies of the national and global hinterlands and forelands these ports interact with. |
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