ch. 1. Port infrastructure : what are we talking about? / Thierry Vanelslander -- ch. 2. Predicting the future : how to estimate future demand for port throughput and infrastructure use / Hilde Meersman and Eddy van de Voorde -- ch. 3. Public private partnerships in ports : where are we? / Rosario Macario -- ch. 4. Port authority corporatisation : leading towards their privatisation? / Franc J. Pigna -- ch. 5. Evidence on the pricing of the syndicated loans for the global port industry / Costas Th. Grammenos, Theologos Dergiades and Georgios Mazis -- ch. 6. Port privatisation in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe : an evaluation of past experience and new drivers / Patrick Verhoeven -- ch. 7. Financing options for ports observations from Asia / Anthony T.H. Chin and Shane Waldron -- ch. 8. Experiences with bond financing and innovative transport project financing in the United States : some evidence from port and port-related projects / Sotirios Theofanis and Maria Boile -- ch. 9. Attracting private finance into African ports / Sheila Farrell -- ch. 10. How to finance future port infrastructure investments? Potential strategies for the different actors / Dimitrios Tsamboulas and Athanasios Ballis -- ch. 11. Future port infrastructure finance : lessons and recommendations / Hilde Meersman, Eddy van de Voorde and Thierry Vanelslander.