South Africa, Zimbabweâs powerful neighbour and non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, is also stepping up calls to have one of the 54 African countries sit on the Security Council.
3. By introducing a differentiated port dues system for hinterland transport, transport service providers will enjoy higher efficiency and better utilisation of resources as a result of a more efficient modal shift distribution for that specific port and its related hinterland.his paper examines one such strategy â green port dues â and shows how the integration of hinterland logistics and ports opens the possibility for differentiated port dues to be used as a tool to internalise external cost in the transportation systems and ensure the effectiveness of hinterland transport.
This map of shipping routes illustrates the relative density of commercial shipping in the world's oceans. Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea, but is extended in American English to refer to transport by land or air as well. Logistics, a term borrowed from the military environment, is also fashionably used in the same sense.