Competitiveness and macroeconomic impacts of reduced wait times at U.S. land freight border crossings

We analyze the macroeconomic and trade impacts of reducing wait times by adding one customs officer at each of the twelve major land freight crossings of the U.S. The change in wait time stemming from staffing changes is first estimated on the basis of primary data and then translated into changes in freight costs through a logistical model. The transportation cost changes are then fed into a multi-country computable general equilibrium model. We find that adding one customs officer at each land border crossing would, on average per crossing, generate an increase in U.S. GDP of $350 thousand and 3.58 additional jobs.     

加工贸易产业结构的优化与珠三角临港产业集群的发展

本文从港口产业集群理论、国际产业转移等相关理论出发,阐明加工贸易产业结构的优化是珠三角临港产业集群发展的助推器,这二者之间存在依存和互动关系,提出加强竞争与协调,整合保税区域功能,完善税收机制,建立临港产业集群信息平台等措施和建议。     

1885-1945年缅甸闽籍华侨的社会结构

早期缅甸闽侨以年轻男子居多,由于华侨社会内部性别比失衡,他们大多与当地人通婚.1885年后缅甸全境沦为英国殖民地,仰曼铁路向北延伸,缅甸闽侨的地域结构特征逐渐由"二元"转为"一体".同期,缅甸闽侨大多经商为生,并创立了各类社团组织.1930年后英属缅甸社会动荡不安,但远离当地政治的闽侨所受影响较小.第一代闽侨总体文化水平不高,但大多以自身中华文化特征为荣.     

原油运输市场分析

分别概述了世界与中国的石油资源储量分布、可持续开采年数、不同地区的生产量与消耗量、以及产销平衡状况,由此派生的全球不同地区原油、成品油的进出口量、海运量与主要的海运航线,我国石油进口的主要来源和途径;分析了油轮的船型和船龄的分布,进而预测了世界上几种主要原油轮运力的供应、需求、船价与运价的发展趋势。这些分析和预测可以作为制定油轮发展的技术政策、战略、规划等宏观决策时的参考。     

我国航运企业发展现代物流的战略思考

世界经济一体化进程不断加快,一些国际航运公司实施全球承运人战略,纷纷抢占包括我国在内的世界物流服务市场。我国航运企业面临着如何对日益激烈的市场竞争局面。现就我国航运企业发展物流服务的必要性。开展物流服务的机遇与挑战以及对策等三个方面作系统的研讨。     

古代中朝海上交往与船文化交流

本文以古代中朝海上交通为主线,论及华夏文明在朝鲜半岛的传播以及中国古代造船技术对朝鲜的影响.频繁的海上贸易导致黄海两侧中朝港口的繁荣.     

Overseas trade vis-a-vis overseas shipping: Growth and performance in India (1999–2009)

Maritime trade has been and even continues to account for about a lion's share of India's total cargo volumes. Despite the growth of multimodal transport (by land, water and air), shipping still continues to be the major mode of transport in the bulk carriage of country's overseas trade. In view of this vital role of shipping, in the first four decades of independence, under the initiative of planned development and active government support, India's shipping and port sector saw dramatic growth in their performance to build adequate national fleet, in keeping up with the transport of overseas cargo. However, the onset of economic liberalization in 1991 has given rise to many new dimensions in the development of the shipping and port sector of the country with a significant redefinition of shipping and port services, in response to the new global trend patterns. For instance, it has also established the new era of containerization in the mode of cargo delivery from the dominance of the era of bulk and break-bulk trade during the decade of sixties and seventies. Moreover, as global competition increases, in response to this emerging trade patterns within this country, India's volume of traffic growth also increases manifold. So, India's shipping and port sectors need, significantly, to build up and furnish their capacity by increasing the frequency of this mode of transport i.e. the growth of the national overseas fleet to meet this surging demand. This paper, therefore, have focused on this role of shipping in such rising overseas trade, with a view to examine the shipping performance (the growth of overseas fleet) in response to the growing overseas trade at all ports of India during the period (1999–2000 to 2008–2009), in terms of both a mathematical model and a graphical representation. Finally, it concludes that the absolute overseas trade, being highly import dependent, have led to a more or less stagnant performance in overseas shipping, owing to the lack of the adequate growth of absolute overseas exports during this period.     

境外工程承包业务的常见问题及其对策

在经济全球化和区域经济一体化的背景下,广西一些企业利用邻近东盟的地理优势,积极参与并实施"走出去"战略,开展境外工程承包业务。文章基于境外工程承包的实际经验,运用对外业务知识和政策,分析影响境外工程承包业务的相关问题,并提出针对性的对策。     

日照开展区港联动的设想

介绍日照市和日照港的现状,探讨在日照市进行区港联动的途径,对日照港发展港口现代物流提出了10项建议。     

印尼铁路项目GSM-R系统核心网建设及互联互通研究

不同于中国铁路统一管理的模式,境外铁路项目需要根据当地的政治、经济制度制定不同的通信网络建设模式.通过对印尼高速铁路项目的分析,研究在境外铁路项目中可能出现的2种通信网络建设模式,即统一管理模式和独立管理模式.提出了2种模式下GSM-R系统核心网的可行性建设方案,以及有互联互通需求时可行的漫游方案,并分析了其他主要铁路...