The provision of efficient transport services in the Iranian maritime and land transport interface.
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2014
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Abstract
This research investigates the efficiency of Iran’s transport system with reference to the seaborne
trade and sustainable development of ports, shipping services, logistics centres and transit
corridors as the overall objectives. The reason this study is relevant, is it introduces Iran
through its potentially cost-effective transport advantages to create an alternative source
of revenue for a country that is heavily dependent on oil income. To successfully analyse
the provision of effective transport services in the Iranian maritime and land transport
interface, the emerging Iranian transport corridors have been under close observation, and
a scenario planning approach mixed with a descriptive exploratory comparative cost
analysis has been applied. This methodology comprises two stages. The first stage involves
the identification of the main features, limitations and challenges of the chosen transport
corridors through which the different infrastructure and the development of main ports,
routes and corridors are described according to the available data and information. The
second and more analytical stage utilises this base to estimate and compare the
comparative costs of these through-transport routes, with a view to establishing their cost
effectiveness. As research recommendations, the optimisation of efficiency of some
alternative land haulage routes, and the International North-South Transport Corridor
(INSTC) as a sea cum-land route-rail are elaborated.
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Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville 2014.
Keywords
Transportation--Iran., Freight and freightage--Iran., Shipping--Iran., Theses--Economics., Maritime and land transport interface., Transport corridors.