As redes logísticas e o novo papel dos portos na economia global

Abstract

Transports have historically occupied a main role in the development of the economies. However, the changes in the world in the last half past century, with the constitution of net economies operating in global scale, have put logistic as the primordial element of territory’s organization. Facility, flexibility and trust are now more important than transport’s costs, constituting the logistic nets, and no longer the transport’s nets, territories’ constructive elements. Transformed into the center of logistic nets, the ports underwent enormous changes that involve since its spatial organization until the relations between capital and work. Considered as an element of the logistic nets through which more and more fragmented and incidental fluxes circulate and where some activities that put more value on the products are developed, the ports can constitute important conductors of productive valorization of territories.