International (Global) Competition in the Modern Transport Industry: The Politics of Port Business and Its Influence on Other (Rail and Road) Modes of Transportation of Goods

Cwinya-ai, Robert Ongom

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“…3 This is notably a trend regarding container terminals, the fastest growing area of port operations; Notteboom (2008) notes that "four worldwide operating companies (PSA, HPH, DP World and APM Terminals) represent … some 42% of total worldwide container handling." 4 One stated rationale for this consolidation trend has been to counteract the similar ongoing consolidation of ocean shipping lines (Cwinya-ai, 2009;Frémont, 2009;Van de Voorde and Vanelslander, 2009). The third trend is vertical rather than horizontal and thus raises somewhat less straightforward issues.…”

Section: Competition In a Systems Context: Seaportsmentioning

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Competition Issues in Restructuring Ports and Railways, Including Brief Consideration of These Sectors in India

Pittman

2009

SSRN Journal

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Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use:Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public.If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence.

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Section: Competition In a Systems Context: Seaportsmentioning

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Competition Issues in Restructuring Ports and Railways, Including Brief Consideration of These Sectors in India

Pittman

2009

SSRN Journal

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“…Whether the focus of restructuring is intraport or interport competition, three ongoing international trends create interesting complications. The first is the ongoing worldwide improvement in inland freight transport, tending to gradually increase the ability of users to substitute among ports economically and thus to reduce the focus on intraport as compared with interport competition (McCalla, et al, 2004;Notteboom, 2008;Cwinya-ai, 2009). 2 The second is the growth -both internal and through mergerof large multinational terminal operating firms (Talley, 2009), reducing the number of potential bidders for particular concessions or privatizations and increasing the likelihood of competitive problems whether a single port or multiple ports in a region constitute a relevant market.…”

Section: Competition In a Systems Context: Seaportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Competition In a Systems Context: Seaportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competition issues in restructuring ports and railways including brief consideration of these sectors in India

Pittman

2009

International Journal of Regulation and Governance

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. AbstractOne important issue facing reformers considering the restructuring of the seaports and freight railways sectors of a developing country is the creation of competition -or, alternatively, avoiding the creation or preservation of monopoly power. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that between intraport and interport competition; in freight railways, between competition among train operating companies over a monopoly track and competition among vertically integrated railways. In both cases it is useful to frame the issue as one of competition at the component level within an open system versus competition between closed systems. In both cases as well, the market definition paradigm suggested by the Horizontal Merger Guidelines of the U.S. competition agencies provides a useful framework for analysis.

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International (Global) Competition in the Modern Transport Industry: The Politics of Port Business and Its Influence on Other (Rail and Road) Modes of Transportation of Goods

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Competition Issues in Restructuring Ports and Railways, Including Brief Consideration of These Sectors in India

Competition Issues in Restructuring Ports and Railways, Including Brief Consideration of These Sectors in India

Competition issues in restructuring ports and railways including brief consideration of these sectors in India

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