600 Sin Ming Avenue, 4th Floor CityCab Building, Singapore 575733 Tel: (65) 6483-0228 Fax: (65) 6483-0388 Email: [email protected]URL: www.infowave.sg Cargo Dwell Time Study - Improving the Competitiveness of Mauritius Source: Bulletin Semestriel No. 41 – Octobre 2008 Publisher: The Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry Trade facilitation has now become a key measure of the competitiveness and viability of business. In a highly competitive market, the quality of logistics can have a major bearing on a firm’s decisions about which country to locate in, which suppliers to buy from, and which consumer market to enter. High logistics costs and, more particularly, low levels of service are barriers to trade, foreign direct investment and, also, to economic growth. As a result, countries with higher overall logistics costs are more likely to miss the opportunities of globalization. The efficiency of ports and airports is known to play a vital role by providing critical support to its international trade and ensuring a country’s integration into the global marketplace. Indeed, inadequate port capacity, port congestion, limited cargo handling facilities, high down time of equipment or cumbersome procedures lead to low efficiency and have a serious negative impact on business activities. Our Chamber has been involved in several trade facilitation projects with one of our main initiatives this year being the cargo dwell time study to assess the cargo clearance time in Mauritius. The first study on dwell time for cargo was conducted in 2003 in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Cooperation and with the financial assistance of the COMESA Secretariat. The study benchmarked the port productivity against international ports and identified main bottlenecks in the clearance of goods. A number of recommendations were made in the study so as to improve the cargo release time. In 2008, the Chamber undertook a new Dwell Time Study with the assistance of the Commonwealth Secretariat. The objective of the new study was primarily to assess the impact of reforms following the earlier dwell time study and also to benchmark the critical aspects of cargo handling against international ports. The study was carried out by InfoWave Pte Ltd from Singapore and the findings were presented to members of the Chamber and other stakeholders during a workshop held on 25 September 2008. MAIN FINDINGS • Dwell Time The dwell time can be defined as the measure of the time elapsed from the time the cargo arrives in the port to the time the goods leave the port premises after all permits and clearances have been obtained. The study revealed that the mean and median for outbound
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600 Sin Ming Avenue, 4th Floor CityCab Building, Singapore 575733