Drafting maritime policies in developing countries: The case of Latin-American countries - coherency between national economic policies and maritime policy writing objectives

• Germán de Melo Rodríguez ^[1] ; Rodrigo Garcia Bernal ^[2]
  1. [1] Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Barcelona, España

     
  2. [2] GIZ
• Localización: Maritime Transport'16 / coord. por Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, 2016, ISBN 978-84-9880-591-8, págs. 416-430
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto Completo Libro
• Resumen

  • The efficiency principle imposed by the current international trade scenario requires extreme attention to detail in the administration of production costs and in placing products on the market. Because a product’s success is highly sensitive to cost and distribution methods, maritime transport and its associated systems require very specific management techniques. Those management techniques must take into account that as transport is a service it gives added value to the cargo. Thus, the management model, costs involved, planning processes, and maritime sectorial policies are topics of vital importance for achieving these nations’ development objectives. The design of specific sectorial policies, both operational as well as for development (investments), should comply with certain minimum conditions. The resulting policies should satisfy integrally and harmoniously the requirements the State establishes in its general National Development Strategy. This strategy considers the factors of monetary and trade uncertainty. States must be particularly careful to interpret changes, tendencies, circumstances and difficulties which emerge in the international markets they serve, correctly.