Road Freight and Privitisation : The Case of Egypt

by Abdel-Fattah, Nabil; Gray, Richard; Cullinane, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780754611035
• ISBN10: 0754611035
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
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Table of Contents

Figures and tables	vii	(2)
Acknowledgements	ix
1 Introduction	1	(8)
Background	1	(2)
Structure of the book	3	(5)
The Delphi study of Egyptian road freight privatisation	8	(1)
2 The growth of the private economy	9	(14)
Introduction	9	(1)
Creation of the state sector	9	(2)
The relationship between ownership and performance	11	(1)
Competition and deregulation	12	(2)
Privatisation	14	(6)
Problems of privatisation	20	(3)
3 Privatisation in Egypt	23	(15)
Introduction	23	(1)
Economic reform and privatisation	24	(10)
Social implications of privatisation	34	(4)
4 Privatisation and the Egyptian road freight industry	38	(13)
Development of the Egyptian road freight sector	38	(3)
The Egyptian road network	41	(1)
Size of the Egyptian road haulage industry	41	(2)
Road haulage operators	43	(5)
Potential for privatisation	48	(2)
The Delphi study results	50	(1)
5 Road freight management under privatisation	51	(17)
Introduction	51	(1)
Efficiency in road freight operations	52	(1)
Types of costs	53	(1)
Road haulage costs	54	(5)
Effectiveness of road haulage costing	59	(1)
Age of vehicles	60	(2)
Costing and competition	62	(2)
Logistics and supply chain management	64	(2)
The interface between land and sea transport	66	(2)
6 Macroeconomic problems facing road freight privatisation	68	(13)
Introduction	68	(1)
Privatisation and road haulage in Britain	68	(5)
Privatisation and road haulage in Hungary	73	(3)
Egypt compared with the UK and Hungary	76	(5)
7 External costs of road haulage	81	(13)
Introduction	81	(2)
Elements of external costs	83	(8)
Privatisation and externalities	91	(2)
Conclusions	93	(1)
8 Conclusions	94	(4)
References	98	(11)
Appendix	109