The impact of Covid-19 on the performance of seaports: A Tunisian case study
Keywords:
COVID-19 pandemic, Tunisian seaports, Port performance, Stringent governmental control indexAbstract
The COVID-19 outbreak had a serious effect on the global economy, particularly, on the volume of port trade. This article was intended to investigate the impacts of the economic landscape, severity of the outbreak, and governmental control measures on the import and export goods of eight seaports in Tunisia. To achieve this, panel regression models were employed, utilizing a time series dataset spanning from the first quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2022. Based on the attained results, the preventive measures and stringent governmental control index and the cumulative number of confirmed cases have negative impact on the imported and exported goods, though the exported goods have been rather severely affected by the pandemic. At the economic level, the industrial added value has been discovered to be significantly and positively correlated with the imported and exported cargos respective throughputs, while GDP turned out to be significantly and negatively correlated with imported and exported goods. Such findings could be of great help to the shipping companies, port operators as well as the governmental authorities to shift strategies and opt for appropriate measures likely to help in coping with any potential effects of similar crises.
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