Maritime Transport in East-Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa:state of Knowledge,Progress and Challenges

摘要

As a result of the globalization trend, world trade volume has continued to grow with the gradual removal of trade barriers under the World Trade Organization (WTO) and through regional trade agreements (RTA), During the last decades, international container trade continued to increase at a rate far exceeding that of maritime trade as a whole. The changes that have occurred within the liner shipping and ports over the last decade can be reviewed in the context of the larger forces that have brought significant changes in the structure of the world economy. The fundamental underlying factor has been an increased reliance on intemational trade as the primary engine of economic growth and development.