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Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

Prospects and Challenges

By: Martin Humphreys,Aiga Stokenberga,Matias Herrera Dappe,Olivier Hartmann

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Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

Prospects and Challenges

By: Martin Humphreys,Aiga Stokenberga,Matias Herrera Dappe,Olivier Hartmann

Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa analyzes the 15 main ports in East and Southern Africa (ESA) to assess whether their proposed capacity enhancements are justified by current and projected demand; whether the current port management approaches sufficiently address not only the maritime capacity needs but also other impediments to port efficiency; and what the expected hierarchy of ports in the region will be in the future. The analysis confirms the need to increase maritime capacity, as the overall container demand in the ports in scope is predicted to begin exceeding total current capacity by between 2025 and 2030, while gaps in terms of dry and liquid bulk handling are expected even sooner. However, in the case of many of the ports, the issue of landside access—the ports’ intermodal connectivity, the ease of international border crossing, and the port-city interface—is more important than the need to improve maritime access and capacity. The analysis finds that there is a need to improve the operating efficiency in all of the ESA ports, as they are currently less than half as productive as the most efficient ports in the matched data set of similar ports across the world, in terms of efficiency in container-handling operations. Similarly, there is a need to improve and formalize stakeholder engagement in many of the ports, to introduce modern management systems, and to strengthen the institutional framework to ensure the most efficient use of the infrastructure and to be able to attract private capital and specialist terminal operators. Finally, given the ports’ geographic location and proximity to main shipping routes, available draft, and the ongoing port-and-hinterland development, the book concludes that Durban and Djibouti are the most likely to emerge as the regional hubs in ESA’s future hub-and-spoke system.

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1464814104

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Unlocking the Lower Skies

The Costs and Benefits of Deploying Drones Across Use Cases in East Africa

By: Aiga Stokenberga,Maria Catalina Ochoa

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The Costs and Benefits of Deploying Drones Across Use Cases in East Africa

By: Aiga Stokenberga,Maria Catalina Ochoa

This book explores the economic and broader societal rationale for using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or “drone†? technologies as a complement to the current transport and logistics systems in several use cases in East Africa. The specific use cases examined include medical goods deliveries, food aid delivery, land mapping and risk assessment, agriculture, and transport and energy infrastructure inspection. Across these applications, the case for using UAVs is examined within the context of logistics objectives—total operating costs, speed, availability, and flexibility—as well as human, or societal, objectives. In the public health use case, as more low- and middle-income countries explore opportunities to improve efficiency and performance in their health supply chains and diagnostics networks, they face myriad choices about how best to use UAVs to improve product availability and public health outcomes and to reach the last mile. The high-level findings from this analysis are that, if examining commodity categories individually and looking exclusively at costs, delivery with UAVs in general is still more expensive for most categories. Although the cost is still higher, the most cost-effective use case examples include the transport of laboratory samples to selected destinations and delivery of life-saving items and blood. However, “layering†? several use cases can provide efficiencies and cost savings by allocating fixed costs across a greater number of flights and maximizing capacity and time utilization. From the perspective of public decision-makers, the cost effectiveness of UAVs cannot be analyzed without looking at the public health benefits, which may be substantial. Drone application in the other use cases examined in this book, such as mapping, risk assessment, and agriculture, is relatively more common than cargo drone operations, and the existing pilot initiatives in East Africa have delivered impressive results for speed and quality (precision). Food aid delivery by drones is still mostly at a planning, rather than implementation, stage. Drone applications are rapidly evolving, and several use cases could gain impact and scale over the coming years.

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Unlocking the Lower Skies

The Costs and Benefits of Deploying Drones Across Use Cases in East Africa

By: Aiga Stokenberga,Maria Catalina Ochoa

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The Costs and Benefits of Deploying Drones Across Use Cases in East Africa

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Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

Prospects and Challenges

By: Martin Humphreys,Aiga Stokenberga,Matias Herrera Dappe,Olivier Hartmann

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Prospects and Challenges

By: Martin Humphreys,Aiga Stokenberga,Matias Herrera Dappe,Olivier Hartmann

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Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

Unlocking the Lower Skies

Unlocking the Lower Skies

Unlocking the Lower Skies

Unlocking the Lower Skies

Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

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