competitive advantage in port?
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This belongs in a different topic, not "special education." What the heck are you asking about anyway?
622517
The big port faces up.
632882
advantage is size and one-stop shopping... disadvantage is competivity pricing on some of thier products
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If you look at the marketing mix in ICT age you will find out that in win-win busineses some activities doesn't have a clear relationship with gain the capital or customer! Keep contact if you would like!
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Try this site for your answer:\n\nhttp://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/chap1.htm
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It is not a competitive advantage any longer. It is a matter of survival. The competitive advantage ended in the 70's. A modern enterprise can not be properly managed or run without an information system. The days of the rooms full of people with green eye shades is over.  Even individuals rely on information systems today. Quicken, MS Money, spread sheets. I have a gross of spread sheets. \n\nLet us take for example of just one business, the grocery store. Actually, today it is called the supermarket.  30 years ago, they had scores of clerks stamping prices on cans of beans, etc. Then they had scores of clerks keying those prices into cash resisters and other scores of clerks going through the isles trying to determine what they needed to restock. Then they had scores of clerks typing up purchase orders for more beans. Informations systems have eliminated all of that. The bar code on the product, tells the information system the product that was just bought. The information system calculates the price, deducts the item from inventory, and checks against the reorder point, and if that is reached issues an order for more of that item from the vendor and transmits the order to the vendors computer. \n\nDo you think that a company such as Walmart could even exist today without information systems?
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Basically on price or quality. Beyond that their are many strategies they use to compete, like marketing (brand advertising), technology, geography etc. Competitors try to create barriers to slow competitive threats entering their market. They can create network externalities that are difficult to mimick or recreate.
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Check information for Industrial revolotion transportation\nlook for maritime trasportation, if you specifically know of a tranportation type such as steamships look there, canal transportation and use.\nSteam engine, rail line, canals and river, ocean shipping.\ngood luck.
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They are not. UAE is not taking over port management.  Dubai Ports World a company based out of UAE is taking over ports management. P&O based out of Britain(Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation) was managing the ports. P&O was bought by Dubai Ports World.
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I'm not sure about that but I found this site about Strategic Management. \nhttp://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:l6Dj1B0jNacJ:road.uww.edu/road/washbusj/MGMT788/Class%2520Items/SWOT_BCG_GS.ppt+internal+and+external+strategic+management+matrix&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4&client=safari
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There are many, one would be low-cost provider. As with all such "advantages" as your competitors play "catch-up" they become commodities or entry-level requirements. \n\nTechnology leads are a good one, look at how all the mobile phoe operators are trying to get into premium services and move from box shifting (the actual phone)
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The company in Dubai that wanted to buy the ports from Great Britain own ports around the world. They are a reputable company, and I am sure it all boiled down to the all mighty dollar, or pound sterling as the case may be. You have to remember that it was not the government of Great Britain selling the ports, but a company based in Great Britain. I am sure we have many corporations and business in America that do business that the government would not approve of.
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wouldn't it depend on location, competition etc
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Safety of the ports is dependent on the Coast Guard and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).  If you want the ports to be safer (have nuclear weapons detection at more than one port, and have more that 7% of the cargo that comes in inspected), we should better fund the Coast Guard and ICE so that they can provide better security.
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Comparative advantage is not a general principle, but a specific type of advantage relating to international trade. The site below explains it rather well. As you can tell from that, it cannot have anything to do with production by firms.
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How about incentives. sales, price cuts for select products jsut to get people in the door. How about a special opening for preferred clients?\n\nGood luck!
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The main functionn of sea ports is the shipping of goods by ship. There are loading docks and warehouses to store goods.