Developing Walvis Bay Port into a logistics gateway for southern Africa: Issues, challenges and the potential implications for Namibia’s future

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management

 
 
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Title Developing Walvis Bay Port into a logistics gateway for southern Africa: Issues, challenges and the potential implications for Namibia’s future
 
Creator Savage, Christopher J. Fransman, Logan Jenkins, Andrew K. Bamford, Colin G.
 
Subject Logistics; Economics; Namibian logistics; logistics clusters; emerging economies; global supply chains; development
Description Many developing countries wish to become the ‘gateway’ to a region or part of a continent.One strategy involves encouraging logistics cluster development. These hubs support global supply chains and may enable the economic growth of the host country through the resulting trade, as well as providing direct and indirect employment opportunities during the build and subsequent operation of the hub. Namibia intends to develop the Port of Walvis Bay to be come the preferred gateway to southern Africa and the Southern African Development Community region. This article builds on research on Caribbean cluster potential and Namibian logistics to identify the potential benefits and impact on development, as well as the drawbacks and risks of such a strategy.
 
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Date 2014-12-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — 3 Phased; Case Study Comparison
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jtscm.v8i1.154
 
Source Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management; Vol 8, No 1 (2014); 10 pages 1995-5235 2310-8789
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Southern Africa — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Christopher J. Savage, Logan Fransman, Andrew K. Jenkins, Colin G. Bamford https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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