Port economics
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Port economics
(Research in transportation economics : a research annual / edited by Theodore E.Keeler, v. 16)
Elsevier JAI, 2006
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
A port (or seaport) is a place that provides for the vessel transfer of cargo and passengers to and from waterways and shores. Port economics is concerned with the study of the economics of port services. Users of port services are those that utilize the port as part of the transportation process of moving cargo and passengers to and from origin and destination locations. Users include transportation carrriers such as shipping lines, railroads and trucking firms that perform these movements and shippers and individuals that provide the cargo and themselves as passengers to be transported. Port users demand port services, whereas port service providers such as the port terminal operator supply port services to port users. Port economics and shipping economics comprise the branch of economics known as maritime economics. This volume provides original contributions to the study of port economics: 1) the evolution of port economics; 2) economic theories of the port, port cost functions and port investment; and 3) empirical evidence on the relative efficiency of ports, the impact of ports on international maritime transport costs, the competitiveness of ports and the impact of deregulation on dockworker wages.
Table of Contents
- Introduction (Cullinane and Talley)
- The Evolution and Challenges of Port Economics (Heaver)
- An Economic Theory of the Port (Talley)
- Multiple Outputs in Port Cost Functions (Jara-Diaz, Martinez-Budria and Diaz-Hernandez)
- Estimating the Relative Efficiency of European Container Ports: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis(Cullinane and Song)
- The Impact of Port Characteristics on International Maritime Transport Costs (Wilmsmeier, Hoffmann and Sanchez)
- A Strategic Positioning Analysis for Ports (Haezendonck, Verbeke and Coeck)
- Port Investment: Profitability, Economic Impact and Financing (Enrico, Claudio and Marco)
- Shipping Deregulation's Wage Effect on Low and High Wage Dockworkers (Peoples, Talley and Thanabordeekij).
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