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International Maritime Transport Costs

Author : Dr Gordon Wilmsmeier

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 12,76 MB

Release : 2014-12-28

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1472404394

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Based on in-depth empirical research, this book develops our understanding of maritime transport costs, the maritime industry and the competitiveness of regions in a global market environment through a geographical lens. Further, the book uses a unique set of data that gives an extensive insight into Latin American international maritime transport costs and its determinants. This is a clear call for policy makers and port authorities to strengthen transnational cooperation in order to improve the development of the whole system of maritime transport, focusing on the causes that put regions at risk of becoming peripheral and uncompetitive.



A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction

Author : Philippe Aghion

Publisher : London : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 21,46 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Economic development

ISBN : 9780771411168

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This paper develops a model based on Schumpeter's process of creative destruction. It departs from existing models of endogenous growth in emphasizing obsolescence of old technologies induced by the accumulation of knowledge and the resulting process or industrial innovations. This has both positive and normative implications for growth. In positive terms, the prospect of a high level of research in the future can deter research today by threatening the fruits of that research with rapid obsolescence. In normative terms, obsolescence creates a negative externality from innovations, and hence a tendency for laissez-faire economies to generate too many innovations, i.e too much growth. This "business-stealing" effect is partly compensated by the fact that innovations tend to be too small under laissez-faire. The model possesses a unique balanced growth equilibrium in which the log of GNP follows a random walk with drift. The size of the drift is the average growth rate of the economy and it is endogenous to the model ; in particular it depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator.



Privatization and Regulation of the Seaport Industry

Author : Lourdes Trujillo

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 39,91 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Competition

ISBN :

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Containerized shipping has brought profound changes to maritime transport, including a shift from labor-intensive to more capital-intensive activities. Revising the traditional organization of seaports everywhere will prepare ports for a more competitive market and less financial dependence on governments.



Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade

Author : Ximena Clark

Publisher :

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 28,44 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Balance of trade

ISBN :

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"Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transport costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to markets, and increases in per capita income. For most Latin American countries, transport costs are a greater barrier to U.S. markets than import tariffs. We investigate the determinants of shipping costs to the U.S. with a large database of more than 300,000 observations per year on shipments of products aggregated at six-digit HS level from different ports around the world. Distance volumes and product characteristics matter. In addition, we find that ports efficiency is an important determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent. (Bad ports are equivalent to being 60% farther away from markets for the average country.) Inefficient ports also increase handling costs, which are one of the components of shipping costs. Reductions in country inefficiencies associated to transport costs from the 25th to 75th percentiles imply an increase in bilateral trade of around 25 percent. Finally, we try to explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are linked to excessive regulation, the prevalence of organized crime, and the general condition of the country's infrastructure"--NBER website



Review of Maritime Transport 2020

Author : United Nations

Publisher : UN

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,16 MB

Release : 2021-01-06

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9789211129939

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Book Description

This series contains the decisions of the Court in both the English and French texts.



Trade in International Maritime Services

Author : Carsten Fink

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 38 pages

File Size : 45,3 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Commercial policy

ISBN :

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Trade liberalization and the breakup of private carrier agreements could reduce average liner transport prices by a third and cut costs on goods carried to the United States alone by up to $3 billion.



Review of Maritime Transport 2018

Author : United Nations

Publisher :

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 36,77 MB

Release : 2019-01-31

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9789211129281

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The Review of Maritime Transport is an UNCTAD flagship publication, published annually since 1968 with 2018 marking the 50 year anniversary. Around 80 per cent of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea, and the percentage is even higher for most developing countries. The Review of Maritime Transport provides an analysis of structural and cyclical changes affecting seaborne trade, ports and shipping, as well as an extensive collection of statistical information.



Infrastructure?s Role in Lowering Asia?s Trade Costs

Author : Douglas H. Brooks

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 37,87 MB

Release : 2009-01-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1781953279

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Book Description

Much of the analysis of infrastructure's impact on trade costs focuses on conditions in developed countries. This book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding by examining the situation in developing Asia, the world's most populous and fastest growing region. This study analyzes and draws policy implications from infrastructure's central role in lowering Asia's trade costs. Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in.



Maritime Logistics

Author : Dong-Wook Song

Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 41,85 MB

Release : 2015-04-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0749472693

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Book Description

Globalisation and the rapid increase in world trade in the past decade have contributed to greater demand for international transport and logistics and, consequently, the expansion of the maritime industry. The dramatic changes in the mode of world trade and cargo transportation make it more important than ever to have a clear understanding of the way in which freight is transported by sea and the role of ports in this exchange. At the cutting edge in its assessment of the industry, Maritime Logistics covers the whole scope of maritime logistics and examines latest logistical developments within the port and shipping industry. With a range of new international contributors, this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. There are new chapters on port centric logistics, hinterland logistics and global supply chains, maritime transport and logistics as a trade facilitator, and future trends and developments. Written by a team of international experts with over fifty years' experience in the field, Maritime Logistics provides a truly global perspective. The book covers everything that students of logistics, as well as those working within the industry, need to know about maritime logistics, including shipping lines, containers, tankers, dry bulk, port-centric logistics, and much more.



Review of Maritime Transport 2012

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 28,5 MB

Release : 2013-02-25

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9789211128604

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More than 80 per cent of international trade in goods is carried by sea, and an even higher percentage of developing-country trade is carried in ships. This annual publication is an important source of information on this vital sector. It closely monitors developments affecting world seaborne trade, freight rates, ports, surface transport, and logistics services, as well as trends in ship ownership and control and fleet age, tonnage supply, and productivity. The Review contains a chapter on legal and regulatory developments and each year includes a chapter highlighting a different region.