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Why Does Cargo Spend Weeks in Sub-Saharan African Ports?: Lessons From Six Countries (Directions in Development. Trade) by Gael Raballand, Salim Refas, Monica Beuran, Gozde Isik is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

Sub-Saharan Africa has a serious infrastructure deficit—estimated at about $48 billion a year—which is impeding the continent’s competitiveness and hence its economic growth. How to solve this problem? Some advocate building more infrastructure while others suggest privatizing, or contracting out to the private sector, the management of infrastructure so that the discipline of the market will lead to more and better quality services. This book graphically illustrates the problem in the case of Africa’s ports. With the exception of Durban, cargo dwell times—the amount of time cargo spends in the port—average about 20 days in African ports, compared with 3–4 days in most other international ports. None of the past attempts to solve this problem have worked. The reason—and this is the major contribution of this volume—is that long dwell times are in the interest of certain public and private actors in the system. Importers use the ports to store their goods. Customs brokers have little incentive to move the goods because they can pass on the costs of delay to the importers. And when the domestic market is a monopoly, the downstream producer has an incentive to keep the cargo dwell tim

Author

Gael Raballand, Salim Refas, Monica Beuran, Gozde Isik

Publisher

World Bank Publications

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780821394991

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Transportation, Social Science