Análisis de factores que incidieron en el incremento de fletes navieros y su reprecusión en exportaciones de banano del Ecuador.

Abstract

The maritime transportation of goods continues to be important in international trade, and shipping rates are unquestionably the starting point for setting the price of a product, since the purchase of materials or production equipment is necessary to fully comply with a process and satisfy the demands of consumers. North American and developing countries have been affected by the increase in freight prices, since the former are consumers of Chinese technological articles and the underdeveloped countries subsist on imports of indirect manufacturing materials or inputs for agricultural production, being significant the export of bananas. The objective of this research is to analyze the factors that influence the increase in the price of shipping freights and its effect on banana exports, therefore it has been considered necessary to use the descriptive method with theoretical basis in relation to specialized bibliographic sources that allow extracting information for the solution of the practical case.