| dc.description.abstract | Highlighting the greater perspective of quality of port infrastructure and logistics performance effect on seaborne trade and national economy. This research considered 93 countries with seaports in order to analyse the contributing effects of improved quality of port infrastructure and logistics performance for a country. Thus, generating a better overview of how these two factors contribute and affect seaborne trade and national economy of a country.With the use of an unpractised structural equation model (SEM) within port economic research, the effects of the three individual time periods 2014 t1, 2016 t2, and 2018 t3 could be analysed. The results revealed from its significance that quality of port infrastructure had a direct positive impact on a nation's logistics performance for the periods t1 and t2. Further quality of port infrastructure had a significant impact on the national economy for the period t1. Considering logistics performance, it was found to have a significant effect on a nation's seaboretrade for t1. Lastly, seaborne trade was found to have a significant impact on a nation's national economy for the period t3. The significant result of the analyse in line with the findings from existing port economic research, but the SEM model used provides new insight into how time periods can be analysed. | en_US |
