Study on Regulation of Private Operators in the Port of Djibouti
Within a partnership framework with the Emirate of Dubai, the government of Djibouti has developed, during the last decade, an outstanding port and logistics hub with few precedents in other African countries. The objective of the present study is...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/16833396/study-regulation-private-operators-port-djibouti http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11928 |
| Summary: | Within a partnership framework with the
Emirate of Dubai, the government of Djibouti has developed,
during the last decade, an outstanding port and logistics
hub with few precedents in other African countries. The
objective of the present study is to strengthen the
competitiveness of the ports of Djibouti (old port of
Djibouti and new port of Doraleh) and ensure their
medium-term and long-term development by designing a modern
and efficient regulation system for private port operators,
and specifically addressing issues related to the quality of
service and pricing, in addition to institutional related
issues. The port of Djibouti's competitiveness can be
measured by its capacity to counter competition from other
ports through the quality of its infrastructures and
services, performance and port costs. Real or potential
competition facing the port of Djibouti concerns non-captive
traffic and its two components, transit and transshipment
traffic. The port of Djibouti's natural competitors for
Ethiopia's transit traffic are the ports of Berbera,
Assab, Massawa, Port Soudan and Mombasa due to landlocked
Ethiopia's extensive terrestrial borders with Somalia,
Eritrea, Soudan, and Kenya. But this competition remains
potential and very marginal due to the unfavorable
geopolitical context and/or the inferior quality of
infrastructures of these ports. Conditions of competition
regarding transit traffic could nevertheless evolve as it is
in Ethiopia's natural interest to diversify its
sea-access routes so as not to depend on a single port that
may be tempted to abuse of its dominant position with
non-competitive tariffs. Contrary to existing competition on
container transshipment traffic, potential competition on
transit traffic will have a more considerable impact on all
Djibouti port operators in terms of tonnage handled and
revenue loss, as it will affect all types of traffic
(conventional and containerized, liquid and dry bulk) and
because transit charges are considerably more lucrative than
transshipment charges. Port activities that need to be
regulated to reinforce the port of Djibouti's
competitiveness are the commercial services for cargos and
vessels provided by port operators. |
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