Th ere is a closer match between Using available data, an examination of the location the main loading-unloading freight platforms and of the main stakeholders in the container shipping command centres of shipping lines in Asia compared industry highlights the sharp contrast between the to Western Europe and North America. [...] In East Asia the main marine gateways are the cluster of ports in the Singapore Strait, the Pearl River Delta ports centred on Hong Kong, the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo in the Yangtze River delta, the Kaohsiung-Taichung corridor in the Taiwan Strait, the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula and the cluster of ports in Tokyo Bay. [...] Another key factor to consider The analysis of traffic for container shipping, air in the unfolding of a fully-fl edged gateway is the cargo and passengers, rail hubs and corridors and development of a portfolio of trade in goods and the telecommunication industry reveals several services. [...] World transport geography points to understand the role of the main stakeholders in the to a matrix of competition and cooperation among development of transportation-based trade gateways and between load centres and corridors. [...] Non-physical infrastructure embodies knowledge and competencies to accommodate the capital, knowledge, labour force and resources international commerce, to reduce barriers governing applied to the physical networks, including the border-crossings and to intensify the development capacity to make a contract of carriage, to perform of gateways and transportation based corridors are transport and to