Port Systems and Regional Hierarchies in Africa in the Long Term

Daniel Castillo Hidalgo () and César Ducruet ()
Additional contact information
Daniel Castillo Hidalgo: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
César Ducruet: Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique

Chapter Chapter 3 in African Seaports and Maritime Economics in Historical Perspective, 2020, pp 45-80 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter looks at an initial approach to the long-term evolution of African port hierarchies. This analysis of port hierarchies is based on throughput volumes (import and export trade) taking into account the mix of cargo, in order to observe the relative position of each port. Secondly, this paper also explores the degree of centrality of seaports through the number of vessel calls thanks to data collected from the Lloyd index. We assume that both indicators are correlated and they gave rise to the self-reinforcement effects which provided stability and robustness for port hierarchies in the long term.

Keywords: Port systems; Port evolution; Africa; Globalization; Port hierarchies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:psmchp:978-3-030-41399-6_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9783030413996

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41399-6_3

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().