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Abstract: The traditional world economy has changed. Dominant markets such as the US and Europe are struggling, while new economic growth is driven by developing nations. The maritime industry is essential to this growth - facilitating the global movement of goods through the use of ports. By means of a literature review, the study illustrates how the changing liner industry has initiated the building of larger containerships. The rapid economic growth of the SADC region together with the presence of larger containerships on the East-West trade route has highlighted the largely ill-equipped nature of the SADC port system as the cascading effect displaces “smaller” containerships on secondary North-South trade routes. The cascading effect has necessitated the need for a hub-and-spoke network configuration in the SADC region. The study further emphasises current investments and expansion projects for strategic SADC ports and corridors to determine a future port scenario in the liner shipping trade. The changing port landscape in the SADC region means that the traditionally strong South African ports are subject to greater competition for cargoes originating from the hinterland. The purpose of this study has been to determine the impact of the cascading effect in liner shipping on the SADC port system, in order to identify a hub port for the region and additionally identify a future structure for strategic SADC ports in relation to the hinterland. The research methodology was structured as a secondary data analysis. The application of a comparative matrix for both strategic ports and strategic corridors established the future SADC port structure. Furthermore, an east-facing hub port for the SADC region was identified. The overall finding of the study was that for the long-term future, the port of Durban would remain the ideal hub port for the SADC region. The port is ideally positioned to capture cargo on the growing and lucrative South-South East trade route and the future development of the Durban-Gauteng corridor will facilitate the movement of cargo to and from the SADC hinterland...M.Com. (Logistics Management
The cascading effect of liner shipping trade on strategic SADC ports
Get PDFAbstract: The traditional world economy has changed. Dominant markets such as the US and Europe are struggling, while new economic growth is driven by developing nations. The maritime industry is essential to this growth - facilitating the global movement of goods through the use of ports. By means of a literature review, the study illustrates how the changing liner industry has initiated the building of larger containerships. The rapid economic growth of the SADC region together with the presence of larger containerships on the East-West trade route has highlighted the largely ill-equipped nature of the SADC port system as the cascading effect displaces “smaller” containerships on secondary North-South trade routes. The cascading effect has necessitated the need for a hub-and-spoke network configuration in the SADC region. The study further emphasises current investments and expansion projects for strategic SADC ports and corridors to determine a future port scenario in the liner shipping trade. The changing port landscape in the SADC region means that the traditionally strong South African ports are subject to greater competition for cargoes originating from the hinterland. The purpose of this study has been to determine the impact of the cascading effect in liner shipping on the SADC port system, in order to identify a hub port for the region and additionally identify a future structure for strategic SADC ports in relation to the hinterland. The research methodology was structured as a secondary data analysis. The application of a comparative matrix for both strategic ports and strategic corridors established the future SADC port structure. Furthermore, an east-facing hub port for the SADC region was identified. The overall finding of the study was that for the long-term future, the port of Durban would remain the ideal hub port for the SADC region. The port is ideally positioned to capture cargo on the growing and lucrative South-South East trade route and the future development of the Durban-Gauteng corridor will facilitate the movement of cargo to and from the SADC hinterland...M.Com. (Logistics Management
Introduction to Shipping & Maritime Regulation
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Shipping & Harbours Supp Exam
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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