Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Francesca Savoldi, Stefano Soriani
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/2
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 93-109 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa2-2026oa23044
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With the introduction of the container, ports have become pivotal nodes of global logistics. Consequently, their development has followed a model based on the continuous spatial expansion of port areas, infrastructural gigantism, and inter-port competition. This model, which has come to constitute the dominant discursive framework for interpreting port development, now shows multiple fractures, stemming from ongoing transformations in globalisation, mounting environmental and territorial challenges, and increasingly frequent conflicts with local communities. These dynamics legitimate a critical reexamination of the relationship between ports, cities, and global logistics. Ports remain relevant infrastructures from a socio-economic standpoint. Yet their development must be re-situated within an urban-territorial perspective that conceives the port-city as a socio-ecological assemblage. The challenge is not merely infrastructural but ontological: to redefine what a port is, what purposes it serves, and for whom it should function.
Keywords: globalisation, global logistics, ports, port-cities, infrastructures, socioenvironmental conflicts.
Francesca Savoldi, Stefano Soriani, Decostruire il modello, ripensare il porto: geografie critiche della logistica globale in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 2/2026, pp 93-109, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa2-2026oa23044