United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Transport and Tourism Division

Port Tariffs

Ports of the ESCAP region have long-established tariff structures. These are contained in published schedules, which vary in length from a few pages to more than one hundred. Some tariffs are extremely complex while others are relatively simple. There is, however, an increasing desire on the part of port users for greater transparency in the billing of port services. This highlights the need for more easily understandable and comparable tariff structures.

In order to respond to this need, the ESCAP secretariat in collaboration with member countries developed ESCAP/UNDP Model Port Tariff Structure (1989) and more recently undertook a study on Comparative analysis of port tariffs in the ESCAP region (2002).