a neighboring island no more than 100 miles away. The reasons for high port-handling costs are linked to procedural … performance of port management and operations. The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States shares the larger Caribbean region …'s advantages, challenges, and concerns related to the performance of port management and operations. Yet performance assessments …

, where constraints in access, pricing, reliability, and network interfaces, particularly in the port and rail network, are … with secondary research to examine South Africa's port and rail network, and explores the underlying factors contributing … more broadly accessible and competitive rail and port sector based on international case examples. It highlights the need …

significantly affects firm inventory behavior. In particular, road density and transport costs to the port are important to … determine the optimal inventory level. With more roads in a city and/or cheaper access to the port, firms would hold smaller …

extensive data on container imports in the Port of Douala, it seeks to provide a basic understanding of why containers stay on …, operational performance of port operators and efficiency of customs clearance operations. Shipment level analysis is used to …, density of value, bulking and packaging type, last port of call, and region of origin or commodity group on cargo dwell time …

Would improvements in port performance increase trade in countries on the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans? Previous … studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of … port assets or measures that can be very noisy. To avoid these problems, this paper builds a measure of economic efficiency …