e) the growth and development of a viable SADC merchant shipping industry, including the role of concessions and incentives to improve competitiveness; f) tonnage capacity in Member States, including enhanced use of coastal shipping and feeder services while recognising the benefits of liner conferences as well as the ongoing reappraisal of the conferences by the international maritime community; g) the role of coastal shipping and the encouragement of joint ventures and alliances between ship-owners to promote economies of scale; h) efficiency in maritime transport along their individual coastlines, inland waterways and ports and optimisation of shipping services; i) the role of maritime transport in regional trade within the Region while maintaining its role in international transport through the conclusion of bilateral agreements with SADC's main trading partners; j) the role of regional and international private enterprise in providing shipping services; k) trading practices, including the advantages of selling bulk cargoes from the Region at prices including cost, insurance and freight (CIF) and co-operation between exporters and ship-owners to ship such cargoes in SADC ships; l) the role of shippers' councils; and m) the promotion of the role of the private sector in providing cargo handling services and the application of commercial criteria by public sector undertakings providing such services. 2. Member States shall progressively remove restrictions, if any, on cabotage by ships registered in a Member State. 3. Member States permitting cabotage by ships registered in another Member States, affirm their intention to maintain their current policy. 4. Member States shall collectively investigate the access granted to ships registered in any Member State to the market of any non-Member State. 5. Member States shall co-ordinate their policies and investigate appropriate joint reciprocal action against those non-Member States which do not grant SADC ships access to their markets on a basis equivalent to the access enjoyed by ships registered in such non-Member States to the SADC market. ARTICLE 8.3 PORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS 1. Member States shall undertake appropriate institutional restructuring to improve port operations in order to maximize efficiency and encourage the efficient and effective movement of goods and persons through the Region's ports by promoting viable investment in port infrastructure and operations, promoting competition in the provision of port services and improving landside facilities.