Impact of government policies on domestic-grain transport in the Philippines
1992
Serrano, S.R.
The findings indicate that transport infrastructure is an important determinant of grain transport costs, suggestive of the need for more and better maintained infrastructure as a means of lowering grain transport and marketing costs. The four-tier regulated freight rates in inter-island shipping discriminates against grain cargo and small grain trader indicating the need to restructure the rate schedule to closely reflect actual shipping costs. The isolation of domestic tax costs from actual operating costs incurred by the transport industries indicate that substantial reductions in the grain transport costs could be realized with corresponding reductions in the domestic tax burden of the transport industries. Bringing fuel prices at par with neighboring countries could reduce transport costs by about ten percent.
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