英文摘要 |
Along with the trend of globalization, transport progress and regional integration will raise volume of trade. Thus, different industries with different transportation features would be expected to have different patterns of countries involved. Using the clustering analysis and gravity model, this paper investigates the evolution of likely trade-bloc phenomenon and relation between trade and marine transportation for the last decades. The major findings are summarized as follows. 1) Both liner shipping connectivity and logistics performance have significantly positive coefficient in the regression result for each year, especially machinery and transportation equipment, miscellaneous manufactured articles. 2) For liner shipping, a significant two-bloc phenomenon could be identified, one declining bloc mainly composed of the European countries, and the other rising bloc of countries among Asia. However, the core countries have gradually changed from those of Europe to the countries of East Asia over the period. 3) For EU and ASEAN, the intra trade creation effects are empirically supported, correspondingly EU in the capital intensive industries and ASEAN in primary and resources industry, respectively. 4) For LSCI-bloc, the effect of intra-regional trade creation is better than EU, ASEAN and NAFTA. |