International cooperation of port authorities

This bachelor thesis is the final work of the author in his bachelor of Economics and Business Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In this thesis, a model is provided for categorising the role port authorities play in developing strategies to connect the port with the international market, to facilitate the needs of the private parties in the port and create investment and business options outside the own port. The model categorises the partners with whom the port authority can cooperate, the modes of cooperation and the attitude of the port authority towards possibilities of cooperation. The thesis further tests the model on a sample of ports: Durban, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Long Beach and São Paulo.