Chapter 13: Trade logistics and seaborne transportation
Wayne K. Talley
and
Sara Russell Riggs
Category:
Handbook Chapter
Published:
26 Jan 2018
Page Range:
409–421
Collection:
Economics 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366154.00021
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Trade economists have investigated the international trade between countries but not the transportation service provided for the trade between countries. The latter, however, can be investigated by using UNCTAD’s data on seaborne trade, i.e., merchandise international trade that is transported by ship from a seaport in country A to a seaport in country B. The world’s tonnage of seaborne trade is equivalent to 80 percent of the world’s tonnage of merchandise international trade. In addition to transportation service, other logistics services provided for seaborne trade include commercial documentation, document transmission, global trade management system submission, partner government agency adherence service and free trade agreement adherence service.

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Cover Handbook of International Trade and Transportation
Handbook of International Trade and Transportation
Edited by
Bruce A. Blonigen
and
Wesley W. Wilson
Handbook
Published:
26 Jan 2018
Print ISBN:
9781785366147
eISBN:
9781785366154
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366154
Pages:
720
Collection:
Economics 2018
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