We would like to extend our appreciation to a number of people who assisted in this study. Edgar Hovland and Fritz Hodne made a number of useful suggestions on previous papers analyzing the Wedervang data. Christopher J. Munday assisted in the data collection and made valuable comments on the preliminary analysis. We are also grateful to the staff of theWedervang Archives at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, especially Jan Ramstad and Kjell Bjern Minde, for assistance. We also owe Mr. Ramstad a debt of gratitude for giving us access to what at the time was his unpublished price index.
This final essay explores the proposal of an integrated ports policy in the North Atlantic. It describes a proposed Canadian national ports policy, and attempts to explain why it never came to pass. It also looks to the developments of the rest of the North Atlantic in regard to ports policy, and asserts that in general, there has never been a true attempt to instate it. Author Lewis R. Fischer presents both sides of the argument for and against national ports policy, and concludes by suggesting that ports have traditionally been one of the most poorly governed sectors of the maritime economy, but that new ideas and new avenues of governance can significantly alter this.
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