Why Does Cargo Spend Weeks in Sub-Saharan African Ports?

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Cover photo: Jan Hoffman ISBN (paper): 978-0-8213-9499-1 ISBN (electronic): 978-0-8213-9500-4 DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-9499-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Why does cargo spend weeks in Sub-Saharan African ports?: lessons from six case countries /

by Gaël Raballand ... [et al.]. p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8213-9499-1 — ISBN 978-0-8213-9500-4 (electronic) 1. Freight and freightage—Africa, Sub-Saharan. 2. Shipping—Africa, Sub-Saharan.

3. Business logistics—Africa, Sub-Saharan. 4. Africa, Sub-Saharan—Commerce.

I. Raballand, Gaël. II. World Bank.

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