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Determinants of Inter-port Competition: A Case of Coastal Ports in West Africa
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V. Omoke1 and D. E. Onwuegbuchunam2
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5879/2018.02.001
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Ports operating in the same geographical range face significant competition among them. In such setting, less competitive ports may continually lose patronage of shippers (indigenous to them) to adjacent ones with better attributes. The extent of and determinants of inter-port competition in the West Africa’s coast are of interest to port administrators/operators who risk losing significant portion of their domestic generated cargo traffic to competing neighbouring ports. In this paper, we explore the question of what port specific attributes serve as competitive basis for West Africa’s coastal ports operating in proximity to the other. Through a survey, users of these ports were asked to identify port specific attributes which they consider when deciding which port to use for shipments making. To enrich our empirical model, data collected from the survey were augmented with secondary data (on the identified attributes) obtained from the respective ports. Statistical evidence from data analysis suggests that ports operating in proximity in the West Africa’s coast compete on the basis of attributes that minimise costs for port users, viz: ships’ pre-berthing time, ship turnround time, crane efficiency and availability of cargo spaces (proxied by frequency of ship calls). Policy implications of the findings were discussed.
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Port throughput, inter-port competition, ship turnround time, ship calls frequency, crane efficiency
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