OECS ports : an efficiency and performance assessment (English)

Handling charges in Caribbean ports are two to three times higher than in similar ports in other regions of the world. In some cases, it costs significantly less to ship a container to Hong Kong SAR, China, or Europe than it does to ship to a neighboring island no more than 100 miles away. The reasons for high port-handling costs are linked to procedural inefficiencies along the logistics chain, high freight rates that shipping lines attribute to...

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Bofinger, Heinrich C.;

Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M.;

Cubas,Diana;
Document Date
2015/01/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7162
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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Latin America,
Disclosure Date
2015/01/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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OECS ports : an efficiency and performance assessment
Keywords
investment need

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Bofinger, Heinrich C.; Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M.; Cubas,Diana.

OECS ports : an efficiency and performance assessment (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 7162 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/532011468272037459

OECS ports : an efficiency and performance assessment (English)

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