THE DESIRED ROLE OF PRIVATE SECTOR AND SEAPORTS GAVERMENCE WITHIN SDGS: CASE OF MAGHREB REGION

Abstract

Fundamentally, to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), seaports need significant improvement through different ways. The Maghreb countries are situated in the middle of the northern coast of Africa or South Mediterranean sea, it could benefit from their strategic location. Although, its seaports suffer from lack and or insufficient of infrastructure and superstructure this is due to their ownership structure as most of them are public port model, this paper aims to describe sustainability and its dimensions in seaport sector. Also, to present seaport management models, as well as, it aims to discriminate between these models and its advantage and disadvantage, It also aims to provide a comprehensive description of seaport types, ownership structure and roles of seaport authorities and how to apply SDGs in this sector. Two cases study are used to analyze and to clarify the main challenges which will face the governments to attain SDGs. The paper outcomes tend to simplify differences between seaport management and governance models and it tools and to clarify how can apply these tools on the ground.