Arctic Port Development

• Main Authors: Pahl, Julia, Kaiser, Brooks
• Other Authors: Verstergaard, Niels, Kaiser, Brooks A., Fernandez, Linda, Nymand Larsen, Joan
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Port Development; Arctic economic development; Marine Arctic economy; Arctic ports; Arctic Shipping; Arctic marine infrastructure; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/0eb37ed3-4cc3-483e-b32a-4a658b0f8f3a; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67365-3_8

Melting Arctic sea ice, shore ice, and permafrost are changing costs and benefits to transport routes between Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and more generally, for maritime economic activity in the Arctic. We investigate the potential for development of Arctic ports from a logistics (demand) and an infrastructural (supply) point of view that directly incorporates local concerns. This approach broadens the scope of the discussion from existing analyses that focus primarily on the ways in which global forces, exerted through resource extraction or trans-polar shipping, impact the Arctic.