Demand -- to Essays on Port Economics -- Port Marketing Strategies and the Challenges of Maritime Globalization -- Contextual Port Development: A Theoretical Approach -- The Conditioned Demands of "General Merchandise", "Dry Bulk" and "Liquid Bulk" Sea Transport -- Determinants of the Demand of International Maritime Transport -- The Demand for Maritime Transport: A Nonlinearity and Chaos Study -- Supply -- Productivity in Maritime Transportation -- Analysis of the Returns to Scale, Elasticities of Substitution and Behavior of Shipping (General Cargo) Production -- Returns to Scale, Elasticities of Substitution and Behavior of Shipping (Dry Bulk) Transport Costs, Some Empirical Evidence -- Cycles in the Ship Building Industry: An Empirical Evidence -- Port Economic Impact -- A Methodological Discussion on Port Economic Impact Studies and Their Possible Applications to Policy Design -- An Approach to the Contribution of the Port System -- The Economic Impact of Ports: Its Importance for the Region and Also the Hinterland -- The Effect of Port Infrastructures on Regional Production -- Regulation and Economic, Technical and Allocative Efficiency -- Bootstrapped Technical Efficiency of African Seaports -- Impact of New Technology on Port Administration -- Excess Capacity, Economic Efficiency and Technical Change in a Public-Owned Port System: An Application to the Infrastructure Services of Spanish Ports -- Analysis of Technical Efficiency and Rate of Return on Investment in Ports -- Cost Benefit Analysis and Externalities -- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of a New Container Terminal -- Evaluation of Port Externalities: The Ecological Footprint of Port Authorities.