COMPARISON OF CONTAINER HANDLING AND COSTS PORT AMONG EMERGING AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Abstract

The article deals with the competitiveness of container handling in ports of the G7 and BRICS in terms of cost efficiency in port. Therefore, we analyzed the evolution of container handling and port costs between the period 2005 to 2011 by means of trend analysis, correlation and logistic regression. From these data and analytical tools analyzed the port competitiveness of countries comparing the group of emerging countries with the group of developed countries. The results indicated that emerging countries (BRICS) have an effect called diseconomies of scale, which results in increased cost due to an increase in the movement. Unlike the emerging group of the seven most developed countries (G7) showed a good ability to gain competitive advantages through economies of scale, a decrease of port costs by raising the volume of container handling.