Análisis de la consolidación de transporte marítimo en Ecuador y su afectación en los costos de exportación del camarón hacia el mercado asiático. Estudio de caso de una Empresa Anónima.

Abstract

Over the last few years, thanks to the rise of globalization and the opening of new international markets, maritime transport has become one of the most important industries in the world. Currently, 90% of world trade is distributed by this means, this has led the industry to innovate its processes. As a result of this phenomenon, the containerization appears and next to it, the companies in charge of their manipulation to be able to carry out the process of export and import in a more efficient way with the purpose of contributing to the exporter to minimize their costs and streamline processes. From the beginning, maritime transport has been the shipping, however, due to the large number of marketing has been opened to the consolidators and shippers. Since, there is a large number of small and medium enterprises that operate with containerized shipping, but do not meet the minimum volume requirements to fill a container. That is why, this analysis aims to detail the cost-benefit that the Ecuadorian exporter has when choosing a shipping company instead of another in order to reduce their costs and expedite the process, to send their containerized cargo from the country of origin to the country of destination. In order to carry out this analysis, it has been decided to take as a reference a shrimp packaging and marketing company; whose exports have as main destination the Asian continent.