Port efficiency, maritime transport costs, and bilateral trade

Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution

Transport Costs and North-South Trade

We develop a simple two country model of international trade that assumes that there is a fixed cost associated with transporting goods across national boundaries. We show that this leads to multiple equilibria that can be Pareto-ranked. One of these equilibria is autarky. We argue that the existence of fixed costs in transport can help explain the low volume of North-South trade. ∗GREQAM, Univ...

External costs of Transportation Case study : maritime transport

A sustainable transport system needs a cost accounting and full cost-pricing systems reflecting economicfactors which originate from transport activity inhibiting sustainable development (namely, externalities; spillovereffects and non-priced inter-sectorial linkages; public goods; uncompetitive markets; myopic planning horizonsand high discount rates; risk and uncertainty, irre...

The impact of port and trade security initiatives on maritime supply-chain management

The fundamental objective of the Container Security Initiative (CSI) is to engage both so-called ‘mega-ports’ (ports sending the highest volume of ocean going container traffic into the US) and the national governments where these ports are located in a way that will facilitate the pre-screening of outbound containers destined to the US. The emerging issue of security as a key factor in global ...

Balancing efficiency and safety in maritime traffic management when approaching a port

This paper discusses maritime traffic management in the boarding process of pilots when approaching a port. For efficiency reason ships are brought as close together and as close to shore as possible. For safety reason ships should remain well separated from each other and at a safe distance from shore. By realising a clear traffic structure the shore-based pilot maintains situation awareness a...