Agglomeration and trade performance – evidence from the Norwegian salmon aquaculture industry

Gaasland, Ivar; Straume, Hans‐Martin; Vårdal, Erling

doi:10.1080/13657305.2019.1708995

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“…Salmon provides a number of examples of innovations in the supply chain organization and sales mechanisms improving logistics and facilitating trade. These include coordination (Gaasland et al, 2020;Kvaløy & Tveterås, 2008;Olson & Criddle, 2008), contracts (Larsen & Asche, 2011;Oglend & Straume, 2019;, futures trading (Asche et al, 2016;Oglend, 2013), invoicing (Straume, 2014) and trade duration Straume, 2017;Wang et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2021). These innovations have helped creating a global market as the two largest salmon-producing countries, Norway and Chile, export salmon to more than 150 countries.…”

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Perish or prosper: Trade patterns for highly perishable seafood products

2021

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In recent years trade with highly perishable agricultural products like fresh fish, berries, and cut flowers has increased substantially. The perishability of these products appears to challenge conventional wisdom when it comes to food trade, which emphasizes the importance of large shipments to reduce transportation costs. In this paper, gravity models and several margins of trade are estimated for the trade with fresh salmon, a highly perishable product. The results indicate that increased geographical distance have a larger negative effect than what is generally reported in the literature. Most interestingly, the number of exporters and the shipment frequency increase while there is little impact on shipment size when trade increase.Hence, freshness and possibly avoidance of losses by not selling products by the expiration date seem to be emphasized rather than economies of scale in transportation.

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Perish or prosper: Trade patterns for highly perishable seafood products

2021

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“…There are of course also other aspects of the industry structure that is important. In particular, 38 Asche et al 91,92 show that firms located in industry clusters are more productive.…”

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Innovation in the Norwegian aquaculture industry

Afewerki

Asche

Misund

et al. 2022

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“…A review of the available literature on food trade duration for the seafood industry shows that they have not investigated the firm‐to‐firm trade duration and the factors that affect these sorts of trade relations. For instance, Asche et al (2021), Gaasland et al (2020), and Straume et al (2020) have used gravity models to study the salmon and seafood exports from Norway by employing firm‐to‐country trade transaction data. In two studies, Straume (2017) and Asche et al (2018) have analyzed the trade duration of salmon and cod from Norway using firm‐to‐country trade transaction data.…”

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Salmon trade duration: The application of firm‐level trade transaction data from the Norwegian salmon industry

Jaghdani,

Johansen,

Thakur

et al. 2024

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Seafood products are mainly provided through trade to international markets and Norway is the major international player for the export of salmon products. It is argued that fresh or chilled salmon, which are perishable products and Norway's main seafood export, need stable trade partners to safely and properly reach consumption markets. In this study, the firm‐to‐firm level trade transactional data for both exporters and importers for the 2005–2018 period was utilized for a trade duration analysis. The Kaplan–Meier survival estimators, Cox proportional hazard model, and frailty model were used to study the stability of trade relations between the partners through survival and hazard models. The study considers the heterogeneous firm trade model along with a theoretical framework. The results show that, on average, the trade duration for the salmon trade between firms is 2.39 years, which is relatively low for a perishable product such as salmon. It shows that the market entry and exit is relatively fast, and that the survival rate between the EU as a major demand market and non‐EU countries is not very different. However, core and periphery markets can be defined by considering the survival rate, as major processing hubs in the EU, such as Poland and France as core markets, have higher survival rates compared with other countries that can be considered peripheries. Both extensive and intensive margins were found to reduce the hazard ratio. Different hazard ratios were also found between different types of exporter or ones utilizing different means of transport. We conclude that the trade duration between the partners can be increased if the competition in the market increases, which is probably possible in markets like the United States where other exporters such as Chile are available.

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Agglomeration and trade performance – evidence from the Norwegian salmon aquaculture industry

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Perish or prosper: Trade patterns for highly perishable seafood products

Perish or prosper: Trade patterns for highly perishable seafood products

Innovation in the Norwegian aquaculture industry

Salmon trade duration: The application of firm‐level trade transaction data from the Norwegian salmon industry

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