PORT-CITY PLANNING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE GLOBALIZATION PROCESS: THE CASE OF THE PORT OF CABEDELO Marcelo Pereira de Lima, Valéria Camboim Góes

Abstract

Port activity as the economic focus of a city brings with it a set of other related industrial and service activities which, notoriously, condition the logic of the urban structure in which the infrastructure is inserted. The sustainable development of the port city enhances the system of forces determined by the effects of the globalization process and the environmental problem, due to the convergence of production and commercial interconnections on a regional and global scale. Knowing the potential and conflicts of the city of Cabedelo and its commercial port facilitates the implementation of joint management tools aligned with sustainable development, providing responsible expansion of important economic segments for the entire state of Paraíba, whether through maritime cargo transportation between Brazilian ports, the so-called cabotage, or its foreign trade. The capacity for governmental coordination and management at its various levels must corroborate an alignment between urban and port planning in order to guarantee the maximization of the positive impacts and the reduction of the negative impacts generated by the port-city interface.