Sines industrial and logistics zones: FDI determinants applied to Sines and its peers

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Tiago Filipe Soares da
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/8991
• topic: Sines; Clusters; Foreign direct investment determinants; Multinational enterprises; Determinantes do investimento directo estrangeiro; Empresas multinacionais

The goal of this case study is to identify the FDI location determinants according to the most recent scientific studies and match those location determinants with the ones that can be found at Sines’s Cluster. Firstly I had to define the main competitor countries and in order to keep things simple I only chose six countries: Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Egypt and Morocco. The countries Spain, Egypt and Morocco are direct competitors for FDI attraction while Germany and Netherlands compete in terms of containers transhipment. The information was gathered by searching on database like OCDE, World Bank and Bloomberg but also by talking with AICEP Global Parques and with Port Authority of Sines. From my theoretical research reducing total costs of the supply chain is crucial nowadays therefore Portugal can win from this since has a better relation between labour costs and qualified labour than Spain. Morocco has a poor infrastructure reducing its attractiveness but the labour is low qualified and cheap therefore might be good for labour intensive industries. Regarding the Eastern Europe countries, after analysing the location determinants they are inferior to Portugal. Germany and Netherland are better than the rest of the countries analysed in almost all aspects, except in labour costs. Portuguese Government should try to lower Tax in order to increase the competitiveness of the cluster versus the Eastern Europe clusters and also should work to attract a logistics third party in order to increase the efficiency of the cluster.