Concentration in liner shipping: its causes and impacts for ports and shipping services in developing regions

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cepal.bibLevelDocumento Completo
cepal.callNumberLC/G.2027
cepal.divisionEngInternational Trade and Integration Division
cepal.divisionOldUnidad de Transporte
cepal.divisionSpaDivisión de Comercio Internacional e Integración
cepal.docTypeDocumentos de proyectos e investigación
cepal.idSade5175
cepal.jobNumberS985396 E
cepal.physicalDescriptiondiagramas, tablas
cepal.regionalOfficeSantiago
cepal.topicEngINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
cepal.topicEngREGULATION
cepal.topicEngSHIPPING AND PORTS
cepal.topicEngPRICES
cepal.topicEngINTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
cepal.topicEngINTERNATIONAL TRADE
cepal.topicSpaDESARROLLO INDUSTRIAL
cepal.topicSpaREGULACIÓN
cepal.topicSpaTRANSPORTE MARÍTIMO Y PUERTOS
cepal.topicSpaPRECIOS
cepal.topicSpaCOOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL
cepal.topicSpaCOMERCIO INTERNACIONAL
cepal.workareaEngINTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INTEGRATION
cepal.workareaEngSTATISTICS
cepal.workareaEngNATURAL RESOURCES
cepal.workareaSpaCOMERCIO INTERNACIONAL E INTEGRACIÓN
cepal.workareaSpaESTADÍSTICAS
cepal.workareaSpaRECURSOS NATURALES
dc.contributor.authorHoffmann, Jan
dc.contributor.entityNU. CEPAL. Unidad de Transporte
dc.coverage.spatialEngLATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
dc.coverage.spatialSpaAMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-03T00:25:31Z
dc.date.available2014-01-03T00:25:31Z
dc.date.issued1998-08-17
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliography
dc.description.abstractAbstract Concentration in liner shipping means that relatively larger shipping companies are increasing their market share at the expense of the remaining smaller players. Although this process is not new, it has gained strength and is particularly affecting ports and shipping services in developing regions. Because trade is growing as a proportion of world GDP, governments and international organizations attach an increasing priority to improving ports and shipping services. This leads to deregulation, which, together with technological advances, increases the incentives for shipping companies to form alliances and to merge. Another cause of the process of concentration is technological change, which has led to an increase of fixed costs as a proportion of total average costs. This leads to larger optimum unit sizes of vessels, ports, and companies, which in turn reduces the number of participants in the long-term market equilibrium. To analyse the impacts of these trends, the document examines the following issues: the extent to which economies of scale are being realized; possible declines in liner shipping companies' profits; the danger of overcapacity; fluctuations in freight-rates; the strength of alliances; the expansion of east-west carriers into north-south markets; the increasing proportion of trans-shipped containers; ports as trans-shipment centres; options for small liner operators; benefits for importers, exporters and consumers; and the implications for regulatory bodies. The document presents a generally positive picture. The word concentration might initially raise the issues of abuse of market power and monopoly rents, but importers, exporters, consumers, ports, and major east-west carriers are all likely to gain from the described process. The ones that are most likely to lose are traditional north-south liner shipping companies. It would, however, be a costly misconception of competition if the public sector tried to protect smaller players from its consequences.
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dc.identifier.unSymbolLC/G.2027
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11362/31094
dc.language.isoeng
dc.physicalDescription97 p. : diagrs., tabls.
dc.publisherECLAC
dc.publisher.placeSantiago
dc.rights.coarDisponible
dc.subject.unbisEngFREIGHT FORWARDING
dc.subject.unbisEngMARITIME TRANSPORT
dc.subject.unbisEngPORTS
dc.subject.unbisEngRULES AND REGULATIONS
dc.subject.unbisEngTECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
dc.subject.unbisEngTRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject.unbisEngECONOMIC REGULATION
dc.subject.unbisSpaCAMBIO TECNOLOGICO
dc.subject.unbisSpaEXPEDICION DE CARGA
dc.subject.unbisSpaINFRAESTRUCTURA DEL TRANSPORTE
dc.subject.unbisSpaPUERTOS
dc.subject.unbisSpaREGLAS Y NORMAS
dc.subject.unbisSpaTRANSPORTE MARITIMO
dc.subject.unbisSpaREGULACION ECONOMICA
dc.titleConcentration in liner shipping: its causes and impacts for ports and shipping services in developing regions
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