COMPETITION AND CONCENTRATION PATTERNS OF CONTAINER TERMINAL SYSTEM IN HAI PHONG

Abstract

The Northern port city of Hai Phong is to become a significant logistics center of the region and Vietnam. The throughput volume of container terminal system in Hai Phong increases impressively year by year. To cope with increasing cargo volume and larger vessel of calls, the development of modernized container terminals in Hai Phong has intensified. Hence, the study aims to examine the development of the system and, in particularly, the competition, concentration and the geographical patterns from 2011 to 2019. The study applied the Herfindahl - Hirschman Index, concentration ratios, the Gini coefficient, the Lorenz curve, and shift - share analysis on container throughput volume data. The results demonstrate that the development of container terminals tin Hai Phong has experienced a deconcentration trend and considerable shifting among terminals in the system.