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The article analyzes the geography of the Dutch maritime transport sector during ca.1300 and 1800. It reports on the communities of maritime transporters in the Low Countries identified on the basis of published and unpublished primary sources. These communities are located in three deltas: the Scheldt-Meuse-Rhine delta; the Zuiderzee delta and the Lauwers-Dollard-Ems delta. It discusses the rise and decline and the main areas of activity of maritime transport communities in the deltas, the professionalization of the maritime transport sector and the centralization of the Dutch maritime transport market and integration between these deltas.