Freeport Research Articles

Features of the Diamond Cluster Project Implementation in the Vladivostok Free Port Zone

Background/Objectives: The study is aimed at justifying and applying modern economic tools capable of providing favorable conditions for diamond and jewelry manufacturers to be competitive in the world market. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Different methods of analysis have been used in the study: Horizontal (time) and vertical (structural) analysis to determine the structure of the research subject and the effect of each element of the system; trend analysis to determine the main tendency of factors dynamics; comparative analysis of aggregated and averaged indicators on separate elements of the considered sector; factor analysis to assess the impact of individual causes on the performance indicator. Findings: The article presents the results of studying the implementation of the working potential of the diamond cutting and jewelry production in the territory of the free port of Vladivostok on Russky Island. Ground has been given to competitive advantages of creating a diamond cluster project as a resident of the Free Port of Vladivostok, the main risks that could affect the development of the proposed project have been assessed taking into account regional characteristics and the current state of development of the world diamond market and the Russian diamond industry. The model of cooperation with foreign investors has been described and the advantages for manufacturers within the cluster interaction have been shown. The predictive assessment of key financial indicators of the investment project has been made and the synergetic effect of production in the revenue from sales has been calculated. The conceptual suggestions regarding the formation of the cluster infrastructure have been given. Applications/Improvements: Use of cluster coordination strategy mechanisms and other key planning documents will ensure an effective interaction of participants of strategy events implementation.

The Strategic Implications of Establishing the Free Port in Russia and Cooperative Measures: Focusing on the Federal Law on the Free Port of Vladivostok

The Strategic Implications of Establishing the Free Port in Russia and Cooperative Measures: Focusing on the Federal Law on the Free Port of Vladivostok

Seaports of Primorsky Krai in the Transport System of the Region in the Conditions of the Free Port of Vladivostok

The article considers the tendencies of socioeconomic development of Primorsky Krai in the modern conditions of development of the national economy of Russia and the tasks of formation of the transport and logistics infrastructure in the region to enable it to secure and implement its territorial transport, logistics and transit functions. A key role in this development is played by the seaports of the southern zone of the Far East and, in particular, of Primorsky Krai. It focuses on the tasks, as well as various aspects of the formation and direction of implementation of the promising socio-economic and political project of Russia in the Far East—the establishment of the Free Port of Vladivostok. This project focuses on the issues of providing Russian seaports in Primorye with a cargo base, as well as economic, social, organizational, infrastructural, political, legal and other aspects of operation of the Free Port of Vladivostok. Cargoes from the northeast provinces of China, as well as the implementation of major Russian projects, in particular, the project of establishment of priority development territories in Primorsky Krai play an important role in providing a cargo base and ensuring effective performance of seaports in Primorye.

Dynamic global infrastructure: The freeport as value chain

In an interview with China Daily in 2014, Wang Yudong, director of the art trade centre at the Beijing Culture Free Port, declared: “We have mapped out a global free-port strategy. Our aim is to build an art free-port network in Asia” (Deng, 2014: para. 5). Facilitated by state partners from Geneva to Singapore, Luxembourg, Germany, Paris and the state-affiliated Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group of the Beijing Freeport of Culture, freeports are believed by many governmental organisations to be a fast-track to a more mature and sustainable art market. In broad terms, freeports are special customs areas, or small customs territories, in which customs regulations are generally less strict, or for which there are no customs duties. Though each freeport varies slightly in terms of its individual jurisdictional arrangement with the respective states, they have established themselves as prominent nodes for international wealth and its traffic.

Top and Free Port Policy in the Russian Far East and Direction the Korea-Russia Partnership

Top and Free Port Policy in the Russian Far East and Direction the Korea-Russia Partnership

Проблемы применения заявительного порядка возмещения налога на добавленную стоимость резидентами территорий опережающего социально-экономического развития и свободного порта Владивосток

Проблемы применения заявительного порядка возмещения налога на добавленную стоимость резидентами территорий опережающего социально-экономического развития и свободного порта Владивосток

ОЦЕНКА ИНВЕСТИЦИОННОЙ ПРИВЛЕКАТЕЛЬНОСТИ ПРИМОРСКОГО КРАЯ ДЛЯ ИНОСТРАННОГО ИНВЕСТОРА

The relevance of the issue under the study is directly concerned with the necessity of the search for the factors of recovery of the Russian economy in the whole and its certain entities in particular. First, Russian economic science faces the tasks of theoretical underpinning and practical solution to the problem of lag in investment and innovative development. The paper states that the domestic manufacturers will not be able to adapt for significant appreciation of import of intermediate and investment goods, that is why foreign investments in Primorye can be considered as the economic growth drivers. The authors present some theoretical aspects of the capital flow theory. In particular, positive correlation between the foreign investments inflow and the efficiency of domestic manufacturers is noted. Besides that, the paper gives the assessment of investment behavior on the country and region levels. The authors determined the position of Primorsky Krai and Vladivostok in various investment ratings. This study showed that the framework conditions for the formation of favorable investment behavior are created and the economic and investment stability are ensured in Primorsky Krai. The authors revealed that the key mechanisms of the improvement of investment attractiveness of Primorsky Krai are the formation of the institutional environment, the creation of new normative base, region promotion on the world stage, the introduction of special tax, customs, and administrative regimes. The paper underlines the priority and special significance of institutional instruments of the organization of favorable business environment, such as the Free port of Vladivostok and the territory of priority social and economic development. The paper determines the main causes of the foreign investments inflow to the territory of Primorsky Krai and notes the consequences of the international capital flow.

Seaports of Primorsky Krai in the Transport System of the Region in the Conditions of the Free Port of Vladivostok

The article considers the tendencies of socioeconomic development of Primorsky Krai in the modern conditions of development of the national economy of Russia and the tasks of formation of the transport and logistics infrastructure in the region to enable it to secure and implement its territorial transport, logistics and transit functions. A key role in this development is played by the seaports of the southern zone of the Far East and, in particular, of Primorsky Krai. It focuses on the tasks, as well as various aspects of the formation and direction of implementation of the promising socio-economic and political project of Russia in the Far East—the establishment of the Free Port of Vladivostok. This project focuses on the issues of providing Russian seaports in Primorye with a cargo base, as well as economic, social, organizational, infrastructural, political, legal and other aspects of operation of the Free Port of Vladivostok. Cargoes from the northeast provinces of China, as well as the implementation of major Russian projects, in particular, the project of establishment of "priority development territories" in Primorsky Krai play an important role in providing a cargo base and ensuring effective performance of seaports in Primorye.

The Analysis of Network Governance in The Investment Development of Free Trade Zone and Free Port (KPBPB) Batam

Large amount of investment is one of income sources for a country. Recently, the investment in Indonesia has not been managed optimally due to, one among others, poor organization system of investment management. This study is aimed at analyzing the network governance within organization system in investment development at Free Trade Zone and Free Port Batam. The research methodology used was Coordination Network Analysis with 5 aspects of study; those are governance structure, service characteristics, operational interaction of partner characteristics, and network characteristic on 3 organizations at the level of province and regency/city. The result of the analysis indicates that coordination between provincial and regency/city organizations is not yet optimally conducted. Horizontal and vertical coordination are not yet optimally established.

Political culture in St. Barthélemy 1800–1820

The Swedish colony of St. Barthélemy was a meeting place in the early nineteenth century for merchants and mariners from across the Atlantic World, seeking to take advantage of Swedish neutrality. Yet not just goods, capital and people transited through the free port of Gustavia, but also information, culture and political discourse. This flow influenced the political culture of the island and its inhabitants’ relation to the Swedish colonial power and their new Swedish citizenship.

Offshore support base location of Subsea Engineering Companies (SECs) for Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) Project in Ghana Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Offshore support base location selection is the determination of a strategic site for institution operations. The facility location decision involves institutions seeking to locate, relocate or expand their operations. The Offshore support base location decision process encompasses the identification, analysis, evaluation and selection among alternatives with respect to criteria selecting the best location among many alternatives is a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used for selecting the most suitable location for offshore support base in Ghana for subsea engineering companies for the TEN project in Ghana. The related problem includes four possible alternatives and four criteria to evaluate them. The four locations considered are Takoradi port, Atuabo free port, Lagos Deepwater and Offshore Logistics (LADOL), Tema Shipyard, and the main criteria for evaluation are Quayside facility, Water depth, Plot size, and Cost of operation. The result indicated that the Atuabo Freeport Port has the highest net outranking flow of 0.402643 in comparison with the rest of the locations and hence the best offshore based location.

The Next Rising Tax Haven

The Next Rising Tax Haven

Lessons of the Levant: early modern French economic development in the Mediterranean

In the Levant, French mercantilism beat the British and Dutch at their own game, acquiring a dominant commercial position in trade with the Ottoman Empire in the era between 1660 and 1750. Privileges granted to a host of individuals, groups and geographical entities ranging front Languedocian woolens producers to the free port of Marseille enabled France to make the most of its opportunities in the Levant. This evolution nuances entrenched understandings of early modern political economy which overemphasize both Atlantic trade and a problematic notion of British experience.

Свободный порт Владивосток: условия развития, перспективы, риски

Свободный порт Владивосток: условия развития, перспективы, риски

Cities driving regional growth

Stamford Raffles, then the Governor-General overseeing Singapore, declared the city a free and open port in 1823. Singapore had experienced rapid growth since Raffles’s first development plan for the city was laid out in 1819. And, while economic advancement has had its ups and downs over the past two centuries, the bold free-port declaration created a foundation for the vibrant, developed, global city-state we see today.

De-Judaizing a Class, Hellenizing a City: Jewish Merchants and the Future of Salonica in Greek Public Discourse, 1913–1914

Current historiography approaches the passage of Salonican Jewry from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek nation-state from a macroscopic perspective. Concentrating on state-minority relations, it focuses exclusively on external forces, treating Salonican Jews as a homogenized community and ignoring the role of the city’s non-Jews. To reassess the importance of the local dynamic, this article examines processes within Salonica itself. Through a close reading of a debate over the city’s commercial future, it considers the shifts in Greco-Jewish relations and the swift reversal of ethnic hierarchies within the city’s entrepreneurial elite that took place at a time when Greek government circles still included the Jews in their vision of a commercially prosperous Greek Salonica. In 1913–14, the Salonican Chamber of Commerce’s proposal to establish a free port generated a heated discussion that transcended the boundaries of professional deliberations and entered the local public sphere. The Greek New Club, an organization whose members were drawn from Salonica’s still small and economically weak Greek entrepreneurial class, became heavily involved in the debate, broadening the field of entrepreneurial politics, marginalizing the existing multiethnic Ottoman commercial institutions, and ultimately elevating itself as the rightful representative of a class and a city’s broader interests. At the same time, the Greek press identified the proposal’s advocates as Jewish businessmen and discursively constructed them as un-Greek. Before the aggressive policies of a nationalizing state led to the complete marginalization of Salonica’s Jews during the interwar period, this historically particular local interplay of class and ethnicity was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the de-Judaization of the city.

Managing Free Trade in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Information, and the Free Port of Livorno

Next article No AccessManaging Free Trade in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Information, and the Free Port of Livorno*Corey TazzaraCorey TazzaraScripps College Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 86, Number 3September 2014 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/676884 Views: 328Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref © 2014 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Alexandra Hall, Georgios A Antonopoulos, Rowland Atkinson, Tanya Wyatt Duty free: Turning the criminological spotlight on special economic zones, The British Journal of Criminology 28 (Mar 2022).https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac010Giulio Talini Giovanni Maria Lampredi and the neutrality of small states in eighteenth-century Europe, Intellectual History Review 33 (Jul 2021): 1–22.https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2021.1946657Stefan Schwarzkopf, Jessica Inez Backsell The nomos of the freeport, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39, no.22 (Sep 2020): 328–346.https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820944523Corey Tazzara Port of Trade or Commodity Market? Livorno and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Business History Review 94, no.11 (Apr 2020): 201–228.https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768051900120XJoppe van Driel Ashes to ashes: the stewardship of waste and oeconomic cycles of agricultural and industrial improvement, 1750–1800, History and Technology 30, no.33 (Dec 2014): 177–206.https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2014.988426

Design of Wave/Tide Simulate Apparatus’ Control Software Based on Free Port Communication Protocol

For the functional requirements of motion control in the new wave / tide testing and verifying system, the free port communication protocol between the PC and the master controller is developed, and the control software programmed in Matlab is prepared, so the handling and data acquisition to wave / tide simulate apparatus (hereinafter referred to as simulate apparatus) is realized. The results of testing on prototype show that the control software based on free port communication protocol is reliable, stable and functioning well, meeting the needs of testing, experimentation and data analysis in the development.

St. Christopher as a Trade Hub for Dutch Merchants, 1624–1667

Since the early seventeenth century a large part of the West Indian trade was in the hands of private entrepreneurs from the Dutch Republic. They were connected through a transnational Atlantic network, not limiting themselves by national boundaries. In this network the Caribbean Islands played an important role as trade hubs; like the Island of St. Christopher, where in the first half of the seventeenth century a significant community of private entrepreneurs emerged, dominating the intra-Caribbean trade by the mid-seventeenth century. Although in the course of the seventeenth century the role as a free port was taken over by the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, St. Christopher played in the first half of the same century a significant part in the development of the transnational Atlantic trade network, that remained intact for centuries, despite, or sometimes even because of, the monopolistic strategies of the emerging nation-states.

A Modern Concept of Free Ports in the 21st Century: A Definition towards a Supply Chain Added Value

Although the concept of a free port has existed since antiquity and remains in force today, it does not refer to a single monolithic reality and does not have a universally accepted definition. This article aims to analyze the modern concept of free ports highlighting their place and role in global supply chains in order to provide a better understanding of these key nodal points. In order to reach the definition of free ports used in this article, we rely on a systemic triangulation approach based on the historical, structural, and functional aspects of free ports.