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Chapter 11 – Governance and Performance in Seaport Clusters; Results of the Cases 145
Table 56: Importance of the five CAR’s
Issue LMPC Rotterdam Durban Overall importance
Hinterland access 4.8 4.6 4.8 4.7*
Training & Education 4.1*** 4.4 4.8*** 4.4
Marketing & Promotion 4.6 4.3 4.0 4.3
Innovation 4.5 4.1 4.4 4.3
Internationalization 4.4 N.R. 4.0 4.1**
Average scores on the scale of 1 (not important) to 5 (very important)
* Significantly more important than other regimes
** Significantly less important than other regimes
*** Significantly different from other cases
The following conclusions can be drawn on the basis of these results:
• All five regimes are regarded as important for the performance of the cluster. The least
important regime is internationalization, but even this regime ‘scores’ 4.1 on a scale
from 1 to 5.
• Hinterland access is regarded as the most important CAR. The quality of the ‘hinterland
access regime’ is very important for the performance of the port cluster, with a score of
4.7 on a scale from 1 to 5.
• Training and education is significantly more important in Durban than in the other two
cases. This can be explained by the fact that in South Africa, firms have to pay a special
charge that can be recovered by investing in training and education. Firms therefore
have an incentive to invest in port related training and education, but due to limited
‘collective action’ no professional training organization has developed.
The importance of the five variables of the quality of a collective action regime according to
the experts is given in Table 57.