Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Transport Economics, Management and Policy series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845423992 ISBN 13: 9781845423995

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

The transformation of public ports into commercially orientated and profitable entities is occurring apace in the Asia-Pacific region. This timely book is the first to take a regional perspective on port reform and port privatisation. A range of countries is examined, including China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. The book's contributors are academic specialists in the fields of port economics and management, whose country studies illustrate a variety of port privatisation methods and outcomes in an economically, politically and culturally diverse region connected by extensive maritime trade networks. Significantly, the book concludes that privatisation of ports is an important but far from universal approach to reforming the region's ports.

Focusing exclusively on port privatisation in the Asia-Pacific region, this book will be of great interest to academics and policymakers who are interested in port reform, together with those interested in privatisation more generally in the Asia-Pacific region.

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About the Author

Edited by James Reveley, Senior Lecturer in Management, Faculty of Commerce, University of Wollongong, Australia and Malcolm Tull, Associate Professor in Economics, Murdoch Business School and Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845423992
• ISBN 13: 9781845423995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Reveley James, Tull Malcolm