Reforms and infrastructure efficiency in Spain's container ports

By MarIÂ´a Manuela González, Lourdes Trujillo. 2005

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This paper quantifies the evolution of technical efficiency in port infrastructure service provision in the major Spanish port authorities involved in container traffic. The paper also analyzes the extent to which port reforms that took place in the 1990's had an impact on the efficiency of the Spanish container ports. Because of the multi-output nature of port activities, we have estimated a distance function, which is a novel methodology in the study of the port industry. The results show that the reforms resulted in significant improvements in technological change, but that technical efficiency has in fact changed little on average. However, there is a significant movement of the efficiency within ports over time as a result of these reforms.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Have Spanish port sector reforms during the last two decades been successful? A cost frontier approach (2010, background): “Other papers that have analyzed the impact of legislative reforms in Spain are González and Trujillo (2008) and Castillo-Manzano et al. (2008)3.”
Efficiency Measurement in the Port Industry: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence (2009, background): “Liu (1995) and Roll and Hayuth (1993) begin by recognising that the port production process is complex; therefore, they consider port activity in a broad sense without adding further specifications.”
The European Port Industry: An Analysis of its Economic Efficiency (2007, background): “2003; Barros and Athanassiou, 2004; Estache et al., 2004; Gonzalez and Trujillo, 2004;”
Container port efficiency in emerging and more advanced markets (2010, background): “Countries need to focus on the factors that affect the efficiency of their ports and benchmark on the degree of efficiency, both between ports within a region and with the ports of other regions (González and Trujillo, 2008).”
When it comes to container port efficiency, are all developing regions equal? (2016, background): “…et al. (2013) African ports 1998–2007 Wanke et al. (2011) Brazilian port terminals 2009 Yan et al. (2009) World’s major container ports 1997–2004 González and Trujillo (2008) Spanish container ports 1990–2000 Cullinane and Song (2003) European container ports 2003 Barros (2005) Portuguese…”