RiskPorts: replication data and code for "Climate Variables and the Costs Generated for the Port Sector: The Case of a Port in Southern Brazil"
Description
This dataset supports the article "Climate Variables and the Costs Generated for the Port Sector: The Case of a Port in Southern Brazil", which estimates the operational delays and the opportunity cost caused by weather-related stoppages at the Sao Francisco do Sul port complex, in Santa Catarina, Brazil. It covers 4,332 vessel calls recorded between 2018 and 2021 at three facilities of the complex. Each row combines port operations records (six operational time measures, cargo volume and profile, terminal, port ownership, revenue, and an indicator of weather-related stoppage) with the rainfall, humidity, wind and wave conditions observed during the vessel's stay. A codebook documenting all 79 columns is included. The accompanying R and Stata code reproduces the published results, which rely on propensity score matching followed by regression with meteorological controls. The port operations records were originally extracted from the public statistics of the Brazilian National Waterway Transportation Agency (ANTAQ). That extraction is no longer reproducible from the source: ANTAQ has restructured its statistical system and discontinued the port revenue variable used in the opportunity cost estimates. The meteorological series were provided by EPAGRI/CIRAM; the values matched to each vessel call are included here, while the original station-level series may be obtained from that institution on request. Code is maintained at https://github.com/AliFiorentin/RiskPorts.
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Institutions
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulRio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre