Improving port services competitiveness: Trends, challenges and opportunities (original) (raw)
This paper provides an integrated analysis of the various challenges that the port sector faces, and contributes in a comprehensive typology of the essential adjustments that existing port governance models need to undertake. A number of major recent developments, including globalisation, containerisation, and the changes in the production-transport-distribution process have transformed the port sector and intensified competition between port service providers. The extent is such that traditional styles of port management and operations become obscene. The paper examines these trends, and the implied challenges, focusing on three major issues: (a) the interface of the public/private involvement in the port sector, given the need for the provision of more "sophisticated" and integrated services by port operators; (b) the ‘new’ relations between providers and users of port services (in a context of vertical integration, penetration of liner shipping companies on the provision of port services, and the increase of bargaining and market powers that few players enjoy), and (c) the implications of these two issues on port governance models.
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