disparities in terms of throughput volumes and capacity, traffic has been growing rapidly in most countries over the last decade …, containerized traffic remains limited in West Africa compared to other regions but has grown faster than in any other region in the … additional port movements generated by transshipment in regional hub(s). Given the regional dynamics of ports in West Africa …

dredging and port terminal operation concessions. At present, the contractual terms of these reforms are coming to an end, so …

addressed through donor funded operations. This ESW focuses on roads, air, and port transport. Transport infrastructure and …

through the quality of its infrastructures and services, performance and port costs. Real or potential competition facing the … port of Djibouti concerns non-captive traffic and its two components, transit and transshipment traffic. The port of … Djibouti's natural competitors for Ethiopia's transit traffic are the ports of Berbera, Assab, Massawa, Port Soudan and Mombasa …

Traffic at Chittagong Port, which handles 90 percent of Bangladesh's foreign trade, has been growing rapidly. The … in congestions and delays at the port, as well as high costs to port users. The delays and uncertainties in port services … is projected for the foreseeable future. Chittagong Port has not responded to this demand growth effectively, resulting …

costly. To reduce trade costs, the priority should be to transform the Port of Dar es Salaam. An efficient port is critical … local and regional consumers and firms that heavily depend on the performance of the port in their daily endeavors. …

"The authors study the effect of reorganization costs on the efficiency of bankruptcy laws. They develop a simple model … that predicts that in a regime with high costs, the law fails to achieve the efficient outcome of liquidating unviable … lowering reorganization costs, the reform improved the selection of viable firms into reorganization. In this sense, the new …