Resumen de Dynamics of maritime transport in the Baltic Sea: Regionalisation and multimodal integration
The Baltic Sea Region appears as a specific circulation space crossed by many formal or informal networks. Ports, maritime transport and the entire shipping cluster are crucially important in the Baltic Sea Region. After the collapse of the USSR, the Baltic Sea has recovered its role as contact area between East and West. So since 1991, the Baltic maritime and ports world redials to meet the global maritime system requirements. Several interrogations arise concerning the current developments of the regional port system.
In addition, the Baltic Sea is characterized by an interlocking of scales. Consequently, an analysis of the ports restructuration within the Baltic area can’t avoid of a multi-scalar methodology. At the global level, traffic’s reorganisation generated a standardization of the Baltic Sea, responding to the dominant hub-and-spoke system. Intra-regional reality is quite different. The discourses on the Baltic unity are often based on the importance of maritime trade but there is an important regional diversity At the Eurasian scale, Baltic ports are no more margins of the European Union, but new crossroads in global intermodal flows.
