Maritime Statistics and Empirical Research in LAC

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Maritime Statistics and Empirical Research in LAC
Recent findings and key challenges

• Gordon Wilmsmeier (TRI) and Gabriel Pérez S.
  (UNECLAC)

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Structure

• Maritime and Port Statistics in LAC
• Sources
• Challenges for empirical research
• Maritime trade and port development an overview
• Port throughput
• Trade statistics
• Recent research results
• Trade and transport costs
• Port development
• Liner shipping networks
• Emerging issues

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Maritime and Port Statistics in LAC
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Sources

• Port statistics
• Individual port websites
• UNECLAC Perfil Marítimo
• Trade data
• Customs of individual countries
• Regional institutions (CARICOM, ALADI, COCATRAM
  etc.)
• UNECLAC
• Private sector companies processing bills of
  lading and customs declarations

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Challenges

• Up to data information, improve its quality and
  frequency (in general only annual data
  available)
• Metadata for existing data not always available,
  not allowing its comparison
• Raw data existing, but not processed
• Culture of investigation?
• Lack of empirical research centres
• Lack of empirical research for public and private
  sector decision making

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Maritime trade and port development an overview
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Sources
http//www.eclac.org/perfil
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Container freight rates quarterly index

Source http//www.eclac.org/perfil
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Inter-annual growth rates port throughput 2000/07
Source http//www.eclac.org/perfil
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Port Throughputs 2008 Latin American and
Caribbean Countries
See complete and updated version on line
http//www.eclac.org/id.asp?id35791
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Source - Base de datos de transporte
internacional (BTI)

• Time period 2000 2007
• Country customs data for imports and exports
• CIF, FOB, Freight and insurance data informed
  separately
• Challenge FOB, freight and insurance only for
  imports, not all countries inform full details
  e.g. Venezuela, Bolivia
• Port of entry
• Challenge different coding for all countries,
  some do not report)
• Mode of transport

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Recent publication

• Profiles 10 Latin American Countries
• Trade flows
• Volumes
• Values
• Commodity structure
• Modal Split
• Electronic document, publically available

Source http//www.cepal.org/id.asp?id34756
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Argentina Modal Split for Incoming Trade flows
from LAC
Source http//www.cepal.org/id.asp?id34756
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Argentina FREIGHT AND INSURANCE, BY MODE OF
TRANSPORT, PERCENT OF IMPORTS CIF
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Argentina EXPENDITURE ON FREIGHT AND INSURANCE
IN USD BY MODE OF TRANSPORT
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Freight rate index, by mode and type of cargo
(food products), 2000 - 2007
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Freight rate as percentage of FOB Value and Type
of cargo (food products), maritime Transport 2000
- 2007
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Recent research results
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Most recent research

• Impacts of liner shipping network development
• Trade and transport costs
• Impact on food products
• Economic crisis and maritime impacts
• Long run perspective in shipping sector
• Impacts in the port sector of Latin America and
  the Caribbean

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Shaping container liner network configurations
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Level of connectivity in global container liner
shipping network, 2004 2006
Source Own elaboration based on LCSI, UNCTAD,
various years
Source Own elaboration based on LCSI, UNCTAD,
various years
Source Own elaboration based on LCSI, UNCTAD,
various years
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Presence of global terminal operators in
container ports of South America
Source updated, based on Sánchez and Wilmsmeier
(2005)
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Growth in ship size in South America trades, 2000
- 2008
Source Authors, based on CompairData, various
years
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Ship size development WCSA ECSA Europe Trade
routes
Source Authors, based on Containerisation
International various years
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Draft restrictions along the WCSA
Source Authors, based on port websites
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Maximum ship sizes in South America trades July
2008
Source Authors, based on CompairData, various
years
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Average service frequency South America trades,
2000-2008
Source Authors, based on CompairData, various
years
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Number of shipping companies active in South
America trades, 2000-2008
Source Authors, based on CompairData, various
years
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Capacity supply WCSA Europe Trades, 2000-2008
Source Authors, based on CompairData, various
years
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Market shares based on capacity supply WCSA
Europe Trades, 2000-2008
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Supply and demand growth in WCSA Europe Trades,
2000-2008
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Freight Rate Index, South America, 2001-2008
Source Authors, based on UNECLAC, Maritime
Profile (www.eclac.org/perfil accessed on Nov.
28, 2008)
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Emerging issues

• Effects of the current crisis
• Impacts of concentration in the maritime sector
• Drivers of international transport costs
• Improvement of research activities in the region
• Improvement of statistical information especially
  information and statistics management

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Thank You

• Contact
• Gordon Wilmsmeier (g.wilmsmeier_at_napier.ac.uk)
• Gabriel Pérez S.(gabriel.perez_at_eclac.org)

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Recent publications

• G. Wilmsmeier and R. Sánchez (2008) Interport
  Competition in a Single Market under Port
  Devolution Lessons from the Southern Cone. In
  The Human Elemenst at the Ship/Port Interface. W.
  Wittig and C. Prieser (eds.). Bremen. Germany
• G. Wilmsmeier and J. Hoffmann (2008) Liner
  Shipping Connectivity and Port Infrastructure as
  Determinants of Freight Rates in the Caribbean.
  Maritime Economics and Logistics, Vol. 10 No. 1,
  January 2008
• G. Wilmsmeier and R. Sánchez (2008) Shipping
  networks in international containerized trade
  Market evolution on the West Coast of South
  America. In Handbook of Container Shipping Vol.
  2 ISL, ISSN 0174-5728, Bremen, Germany
  forthcoming
• G. Wilmsmeier and I. Martínez Zarzoso (2007)
  Determinants of Maritime Transport Costs A
  panel Data Analysis for Latin American
  Containerised Trade (forthcoming)
• G. Wilmsmeier and T. Notteboom (2007)
  Determinants of Liner Shipping Network
  Configuration - A two Region Comparison
  (forthcoming)
• A. Baird and G. Wilmsmeier (2007) Ferry
  Transport in Scotland. Scottish Transport Review.
  Issue 37 October 2007. ISSN 1462-8708
• L. Márquez Ramos, I. Martínez Zarzoso, E. Pérez
  García y G. Wilmsmeier (2007) Transporte
  Maritimo Costes de Transporte y Conectividad en
  el Comercio Exterior español. In Lecciones de
  Economía Marítima. La Coruña. Spain. ISBN ISBN
  978-84-9745-052-3

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