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This concluding chapter provides a critical review of the arguments discussed in the previous chapter of this book. The main statement of this book is that emerging port-cities in the GCC countries are becoming key players in the global system of ports while configuring commodity flows. Here, Dubai is used as an extreme case with a constant series of development stages that makes it today an important hub-port and logistics centre in the region. Attention is drawn to the success story of Dubai in developing into a global logistics centre, compared to Singapore as the world’s leading logistics hub; the role of government and its initiatives in sustaining competitiveness is highlighted. Against the trend in port-cities in the Western world, the results of the empirical study show that the relationship between the port and the city has not weakened but strengthened and more specialized throughput time.
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The World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is the primary tool for the in-depth investigation of logistics performance for countries and is therefore able to benchmark results against 150 countries. LPI is complementary to international competitive indicators, like the World Bank’s Doing Business measures and the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index (Arvis et al. 2007).
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Akhavan, M. (2020). Conclusions. Future of Port Geography in the Developing World. In: Port Geography and Hinterland Development Dynamics. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52578-1_6
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