International audienceAs Fernand Braudel noticed, port-cities have always been affected by globalisation. Since the end of the 1960’s, the last phase in this process is due to the introduction of containers in the goods transport system. Besides the economies of scale this standardized packaging has generated, the consequences of containerization are substantial, since it has in particular defined new functional perimeters, called “port regions”. This paper examines in particular a case study located in Europe in the heart of the Northern Range : the port region formed by Rotterdam, Antwerp and Zeebrugge in the Rhine-Scheldt Delta. In this case, the regionalization process is based on proximity, bipolarity and interdependence. But the aim o...