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Table 3 Literature review of the factors in container port selection

From: Port choice in Brazil: a qualitative research related to in-depth interviews

Area/Region

Articles

Perspective

Criterion found significant

Africa

Ugboma et al. (2006), Onwuegbuchunam (2013)

Shippers

Port efficiency, frequency of ships, port infrastructure, geographic location and port costs

 

Gohomene et al. (2016)

Shipping Lines

Port draft, political stability, market size/ cargo volume, and international network

Asia

Kim (1993), Tiwari et al. (2003), Onut et al. (2011), Tongzon (2009), Wu and Peng (2013), Nugroho et al. (2016)

Shippers and/or freight forwarders

Sea distance, inland distance, port efficiency (loading hours), annual cargo handling volume, loading hours, shipping frequency, port cost, port infrastructure, location of the port, transport cost and transport time

 

Tongzon and Sawant (2007), Chou (2010), Park and Min (2011), Tang et al. (2011), Lam and Dai (2012), Yang et al. (2016), Kavirathna et al. (2018), Abdul Rahman et al. (2019)

Shipping lines

Location, port efficiency, port cost, port infrastructure, depth of containership berth, distance, sailing time, bunker cost, inland cargo demand, port service, land transport cost

Europe

Bird and Bland (1988), De Langen (2007), Alonso and Soriano (2009), Veldman et al. (2011), Martínez-Pardo et al. (2020), Caballé Valls et al. (2020)

Shippers and/or freight forwarders

Port services, port cost, ship frequency, inland distance, inland and ocean transport costs, quality of service, maritime distance, sea route, maritime connectivity of the port, and intermodal connectivity of the port

 

Veldman and Bükmann (2003), Ng et al. (2006), Wiegmans et al. (2008), da Cruz et al. (2013)

Shipping Lines

Geographical location, availability of hinterland connections, intermodality, port tariffs, immediacy of consumers, port efficiency, service quality, infrastructure

North America

Hanelt and Smith (1987), Murphy and Daley (1994), Malchow and Kanafani (2004), Steven and Corsi (2012)

Shippers and/or freight forwarders

Local market, domestic transportation costs, shipment information, loss and damage performance, port efficiency, sea distance, inland distances, speed of delivery

 

Guy and Urli (2006), Anderson et al. (2009)

Shipping lines

Geographical location, port cost, services, sea time, distance

North America and Europe

Slack (1985)

Shippers and/or freight forwarders

Port Cost and ship frequency

Oceania

Ng et al. (2013)

Shippers

Distance, port cost, port efficiency, charges

South America

Cantillo et al. (2018a, b), Vega et al. (2019)

Shippers

Inland and ocean transport costs, maritime transit time, frequency of shipping lines, trade agreement, gross domestic product, container cargo

Global

Panayides and Song (2012)

Shipping Lines

Port efficiencies, port cost, service and information-system, multimodal and value-added services