Transportation Costs For Forest Products From The Puget Sound Area And Alaska To Pacific Rim Markets

Author : Harold W Wisdom
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365690832
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Transportation Costs for Forest Products from the Puget Sound Area and Alaska to Pacific Rim Markets (Classic Reprint) written by Harold W Wisdom and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transportation Costs for Forest Products From the Puget Sound Area and Alaska to Pacific Rim Markets Distance traveled is important, but demand factors and the competitiveness of the transportation industry also influence rate determination and may offset the influence of distance. Long, heavily traveled, competitive routes, may have substantially lower rates than short, lightly traveled, non-competitive routes (branch Empirical research on ocean transportation costs for forest products confirms that freight rates for forest products are determined by several factors besides distance (wisdom and Jones These include commodity-unit value, commodity-stowage factor, quan tity shipped, volume of trade on a route, and trade balance on a route. Whether Alaska has a transportation-cost advantage depends on whether the dis tance factor-outweighs other factors that might put Alaska at a disadvantage, such as volume of trade, backhaul opportunities, and weather. The net effect of these some times conflicting factors is an empirical matter that can be answered only by compar ing rates from the Alaska and Puget Sound area to Pacific Rim countries by using appropriate statistical methods. That is the purpose of this study. Procedure - The analysis was conducted in two stages and was repeated for three products, logs, cants and wood pulp. The first stage used analysis of covariance (agov) to test whether distance is an important determinant of transportation cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.