The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter?

The UNCTAD Code of conduct for Liner Conferences entered into force in 1983. The Code's cargo allocation scheme or '40-40-20 rule' aims to provide shipping lines of developing countries with a fair change to compete for the carriage of their seabourne trade. However, the Code has not...

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Main Authors: PHANG, Sock-Yong, TOH, Rex S.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soe_research-12352016-11-27T08:07:34Z The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter? PHANG, Sock-Yong TOH, Rex S. The UNCTAD Code of conduct for Liner Conferences entered into force in 1983. The Code's cargo allocation scheme or '40-40-20 rule' aims to provide shipping lines of developing countries with a fair change to compete for the carriage of their seabourne trade. However, the Code has not been effective in meeting its stated objectives for a variety of reasons. Amongst the administrative difficulties are (i) the complications introduced by the EEC's Brussels Package, (ii) the definition of national lines, (iii) the unit of measurement for cargo allocation purposes, and (iv) the monitoring of cargo movements. The tremendous growth in non-conference container traffic over the last two decades has undermined the conference liner trade and therefore the importance of the Code's cargo sharing arrangement. It is thus, for all practical purposes, a dead letter. 1994-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/236 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1235/viewcontent/Phang_Liner_Code_ABR94.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Economics eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Economics Transportation Law
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Transportation Law
PHANG, Sock-Yong
TOH, Rex S.
The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter?
description The UNCTAD Code of conduct for Liner Conferences entered into force in 1983. The Code's cargo allocation scheme or '40-40-20 rule' aims to provide shipping lines of developing countries with a fair change to compete for the carriage of their seabourne trade. However, the Code has not been effective in meeting its stated objectives for a variety of reasons. Amongst the administrative difficulties are (i) the complications introduced by the EEC's Brussels Package, (ii) the definition of national lines, (iii) the unit of measurement for cargo allocation purposes, and (iv) the monitoring of cargo movements. The tremendous growth in non-conference container traffic over the last two decades has undermined the conference liner trade and therefore the importance of the Code's cargo sharing arrangement. It is thus, for all practical purposes, a dead letter.
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author PHANG, Sock-Yong
TOH, Rex S.
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title The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter?
title_short The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter?
title_full The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter?
title_fullStr The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter?
title_full_unstemmed The UNCTAD Liner Code: A Dead Letter?
title_sort unctad liner code: a dead letter?
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 1994
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