Resumen de An Approach to the Hub-and-Spoke Systems from SVARs Models: A Practical Application to Container Traffic between the Port of Bahía de Algeciras and Other Ports of the Spanish Port System (Bahía de Cádiz and Las Palmas)

José Ignacio Castillo Manzano, Pablo Coto Millán, Lourdes López Valpuesta

• The hub-and-spoke systems are frequently connected with maritime, air and road transport. The international container traffic in maritime transport is developed under this model. For a port to achieve a “Hub Status” in maritime container transport, its traffic should exceed 1,000,000 tons per year and be provided with the necessary equipment to use simultaneously three post-panamax cranes for a new-generation vessel. Huge container vessels dock only at Hub ports and international shipping companies transfer their containers from these ports to their round the world and feeder 1 lines.