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the European ports of Copenhagen andMalmo being a case in point. Fleming and Baird (1999) noted that there have beenmany recent remarks and written ments that the real future petition will not be between ports and individual transport 3 carriers per se, but between a handful of “total logistics chains”. Indeed, Goss (1990), drawing upon Verhoeff (1981), discussed five different forms of petition which ports are subject to, namely – petition between whole ranges of ports or coastlines。 petition between ports in different countries。 petition between individual ports in the same country。 petition between the operators or providers of facilities within the same port。 and petition between different modes of transport. InAsia, asmajor ports inChina such as Shanghai and Shenzhen develop, neighbouring ports such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Busan in South Korea are feeling the effects of petition (SangHun, 2021。 Wright, 2021). Up to now,many ports in China struggled to keep up with growing traffic volumes. Now however as more capacity es on stream, they are looking to attract other traffic, especially transshipment traffic, which passes through ports in neighbouring countries. These ports outside of China are pursuing a variety of strategies, such as developing tax free zones and developing facilities for valueadding activities within the port area, in order to retain their traffic from the onslaught of petition fromports port is anxious that burdensome crossborder trucking rules concerning traffic between Hong Kong and mainland China be relaxed so that it can pete more effectively. Similarly, it is worried that its differential advantage in terms of the efficiency of customs clearance at Hong Kongwill be eradicated if China’s customs services are made more efficient. 3. Ports and economic growth Increasingly, ports are recognised as key ponents in determining the overall petitiveness of national economies. Cullinane and Song (2021) point out that ports constitute a critical link in the supply chain and that their level of efficiency and performance influences, to a large extent, a country’s petitiveness. Similarly, Sanchez et al. (2021) in the context of a number of Latin American countries, showed that port efficiency is a relevant determinant of a country’s petitiveness and interestingly they add tha