Topics

VERY IMPORTANT: The themes listed below are NOT exclusive.

1. Space and territory
   • International, national and local environment in the port history (the history of the harbors, the cities and the regions)
   • Harbor in the national and regional projects
   • Dynamics and actors in the port cities
   • The port city as an interdisciplinary area
   • Cartography

    

2. Economics
   • Harbors and regional development
   • Harbors and international market
   • Dry ports
   • Harbors and agricultural, industrial and commercial policies
   • Port infrastructures
     • Shipyards
       • Building and production
       • Corrosion of port tools
   • Logistics: transport systems
   • Harbors and railways: challenges
   • The role of the business
   • Fishing harbors
   • Harbors and tourism

    

3. Society
   • Unrest in port cities
   • Trade Unions in the harbors
   • Network of harbors
   • Migration and enviroment
   • History of Maritime mobility (histography and methodology)
   • Urbanism and planning. The port suburbs
   • Life in port cities
   • People and society in the harbors

    

4. Culture
   • Port identities
   • Arts
   • Media
   • Cultural heritage
   • Oral histories
   • Travelers stories
   • Music and harbors
   • Harbors and languages

    

5. Policy
   • Port national administration
   • Public and private harbors
   • Actors and practices
   • Port law
   • The role of institutions in the harbors development

    

6. International actors
   • IMO
   • ONU
   • WHO

    

7. Harbours and Canals
   • Buldings
   • Enlargement

    

8. Submarine activities, harbours and archeology (associations)
   • Shipwreck
   • Dredging
   • Submarine camera

    

9. Business and innovation in port industry
   • Projects, containers, drones
   • Vinyl in yacht
   • Physical Internet