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Concentration of containerized shipping and handling services: The case of the Dakar-Luanda port range

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  • Brigitte Daudet

    (Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School)

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Africa accounts for less than 5% of international maritime trade and the total throughput of all West and Central African (WCA) port range represents less than 1% of the world total handling with 10 million TEU in 2021 (Alix & Daudet, 2021). However, the geographical configuration and the historical construction that have formed the current borders have made it possible for 17 countries ranging from Senegal to Angola, to have direct access to the ocean, through more than 30 international trade ports. Among them, only 11 ports handle more than 100,000 TEU in 2010 and then 17 ports a decade later, with the highest concentration in the Gulf of Guinea, which benefited from the most populated hinterlands. The port of Lomé has become the regional leader as its volumes multiplied by 7 in a decade due to the transhipment strategies of the Italian-Swiss shipping company MSC Shipping. The visual representation of the linear method reveals the growth size of the transhipment ports relative to the so-called gateway ports such as Abidjan and Dakar that have lost relative market share between 2010 and 2020.

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  • Brigitte Daudet, 2022. "Concentration of containerized shipping and handling services: The case of the Dakar-Luanda port range," Post-Print hal-05265478, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05265478
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