Container Port Production Efficiency: A Comparative Study of DEA and FDH Approaches
By Tengfei Wang, Dong-Wook Song, Kevin P. B. Cullinane. 2003
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Container terminal production is both an important and complicated element in the contemporary global economy. Amongst other methods, the efficiency of container port or terminal production can potentially be analysed by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) or by the Free Disposal Hull (FDH) Model. This paper aims to evaluate the efficiency of the world's most important container ports and terminals using the two alternative techniques. The results show that the available mathematical programming methodologies lead to different conclusions. It is also concluded that the availability of panel data, rather than cross-sectional data would greatly improve the validity of the efficiency estimates derived from all the mathematical programming techniques applied.
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- Container port efficiency in emerging and more advanced markets (2010, methodology): “…2004; Cullinane et al., 2005a; Kaisar et al., 2006; Roll and Hayuth, 1993; Valentine and Gray, 2001), multiple linear regression (Tongzon, 1995), Total Factor Productivity (TFP) (Estache et al., 2004; Cheon et al., 2010), and Free Disposal Hull (FDH) (Wang et al., 2003; Cullinane et al., 2005a).”
- Port Efficiency and Trade Flows (2007, unknown): “5 There is also a related literature on a similar methodology called Free Disposal Hull (FDH) and Wang et al. (2003) compares these methodologies in measuring container port production efficiencies.”