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International audience; For the last 20 years, the baltic Sea has been affected by many upheavals, not only geopolitical but also economic. they have forced ports to transform themselves, and not least to adapt to the evolutions in the marine industry. the eastern baltic ports have moved from a principle of complementarity, instruments of Soviet collectivism, to integration within a global maritime and port system synonymous with economic liberalism. Moreover, the issue of modifying governance and port regulations within a region undergoing major change is of particular interest in the baltic area. A literature review, as well as fieldwork based on approximately 20 interviews (with elected officials, representatives of port authorities, directors of handling companies, representatives from chambers of commerce, lobbyists, etc), brings to light how stakeholder interactions structure the port area, and impact the development of territories (port, urban, hinterland).

The maritime industry is constantly evolving and striving for increased innovation. The past years have been exceptionally interesting. Major trends like globalisation and containerisation have reshaped the industry and continue to do it. These changes can be illustrated by the strategic alliances between ship-owners trying today to reshuffle the circulatory and port maps. Thus, in his constant search optimization, maritime transport requires continuous infrastructures’ adaptation. Due to an increasingly competitive environment, major seaports tend also to build up new strategies in order to become more attractive. It represents a system of spatial and temporal interactions and the territorial implications of supply chains and transportation are not negligible. In this respect, the paper proposes to analyse a singular location: the Seine Axis. This axis is concentrating on its territory the French first port complex and the fourth in Europe. This area combines a maritime interface structured around the ports of the River Seine estuary and a metropolitan interface which supplies a market of more than 11 million inhabitants in the Ile-de-France region. The communication aims to qualify the port system of the Valley of the Seine in order to analyze how it adapts to recent, rapid and numerous changes of the contemporary maritime world. The paper will address the attractiveness and efficiency of ports in a globalized economy, a highly competitive European context. The article is based on ports’ statistics utilizations and likewise on in-depth bibliographical research. The paper will also integrate some results from the CIRMAR platform which is using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) for the analysis of maritime traffic.

International audience; La mer Baltique, mer jeune et régionale, présente des particularités uniques. Parmi celles-ci, sa configuration géographique la place naturellement à l'écart des grandes routes maritimes mondiales. Cette situation est accentuée par l'organisation de sa desserte en lignes régulières, centrées sur la rangée nord européenne et surtout sur le port de Hambourg. Au sein même de l'espace baltique, l'organisation de ce réseau de feeders crée une sous-régionalisation spécifique, caractérisant ainsi la rive orientale de la Baltique dans son rôle d'interface vers la Russie et son poids dans le trafic conteneurisé régional.

Facing a phase of liberalization and deregulation, the relation between cities and ports has been thoroughly analyzed from different perspective in the last 50 years. Beyond simple coexistence, the issue is the creation of synergies benefiting to both entities. These movements have an impact on the new trajectories of governance and partnerships between public and private actors. So port governance is marked by a new level of complexity which has caused a reshaping of the system of actors involved in the organization of ports. Consequently, the paper aims to provide some insights into this question by presenting the first results of a research project focusing on the relationship between ports and territories which are numerous.Likewise, the paper also seeks to identify the characteristics, constraints and dynamics of the relationship between ports and cities and to study their potential impacts on spatial planning and territorial development. It specifically focuses on an intermediate scale of port-cities.The methodology of this paper is primarily qualitative and based in part on interviews conducted among key actors and field studies. It mainly emphases on interrogations about the institutional status of the ports, the issues and consequences of the choices or the role of each category of actors in port and/or city governance. This analysis of decision-making processes will allow to describe and explain the dynamics of cooperation, but also conflictual logics.

International audience; Après le ralentissement de 2008 le trafic portuaire mondial a repris sa marche en avant. Lesinnovations dans les transports de marchandises ont facilité le développement de systèmes dedistribution et de production flexibles, notamment dans les grands ports qui traitent l’écrasantemajorité du fret. Toutefois le monde portuaire se caractérise également par la permanence de ports« moyens » et « petits » qui desservent souvent des arrière-pays moins étendus. Ces derniers sontcependant peu étudiés par la géographie maritime et encore moins valorisés dans les approcheséconomiques. Il s’y joue pourtant des questions de développement territorial qui justifient un regardplus approfondi sur l’inscription de ces ports au sein de leur territoire et dans un système maritimeglobalisé. Le cas normand illustre cette dynamique. En Normandie, les grands ports (Rouen etLe Havre) traitent la quasi-totalité des marchandises transportées par voie maritime. Ils constituentainsi une unité pertinente pour analyser les points de rencontre des différentes échelles, du localau global. Néanmoins, malgré le processus de concentration portuaire, l’écosystème portuairenormand repose également sur des petits ports qui assument des fonctions plus locales auprèsd’hinterlands plus restreints.Dès lors, cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans le prolongement du colloque Devport 3 (octobre 2020) et duprogramme « Ports et Territoires » (PORTERR ) qui interroge :• la dimension infrastructurelle et réticulaire dans le développement portuaire et logistique duterritoire normand, et par extension de l’axe Seine ;• l’évolution des dynamiques socio-économiques au sein des places portuaires normandes ;• la gouvernance des places portuaires, mais également de l’interface ports / territoires ;• l’opportunité de développement d’outils de modélisation du réseau logistique à des fins dedéveloppement territorial.

Maritime transport is the backbone of global trade, a component driving globalization. Over 80 % of world trade in volume terms and over 70 % in value terms is done by sea; these proportions are even higher in most developing countries. This unceasing growth in maritime trade raises important questions concerning the development of ports role in worldwide transport. In recent years, container shipping has resulted in a specific network connecting the main ports together and these ports to smaller ones by regular feeder services which tend to use smaller size containerships. The development of the port system is concentrated in large ports, which attract considerable container traffic. This paper aims to present a survey of the current situation of container shipping in the Spanish ports which, comparing to north western European ports, have quite small markets and limited hinterlands that by consequences reduce attractiveness of ports. It focuses on the integration of ports in the containerization networks and on the organization of regular lines. The research was carried out using mainly Automatic Identification Data (AIS). The data acquired from AIS systems constitute a new means of information which allows to perform multiscale, diachronic and synchronic analyses. A desktop study as well as a statistical analysis which has required the construction of a database are also used. By focusing on vessels, shipping companies and ports, this communication considers the process of containerization in Spanish ports with a special attention on ports' network.