Efficiency Measurement in the Port Industry: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence
By MarI´a Manuela González, Lourdes Trujillo. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2009
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The purpose of this paper is to further an understanding of the port sector through a systematic analysis of the existing studies assessing the economic efficiency and productivity of the sector. The emphasis is on the measurement methodologies, the variables used and the results in terms of the various port activities as well as on the relevance of dimensions such as port size, ownership, location, and so on. One of the main contributions of our analysis is the evidence provided for the need very clearly to isolate and spell out the port activity for which the efficiency assessment is being conducted. From an economic policy viewpoint, our assessment also points to the necessity to more closely involve the relevant authorities in order to improve the data collection system.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research
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- Container port efficiency in emerging and more advanced markets (2010, background): “Most recently, González and Trujillo (2009) systematized existing studies to assess the economic efficiency and productivity of the port industry.”
- A Critical Analysis of DEA Applications to Seaport Economic Efficiency Measurement (2009, unknown): “The fact that port efficiency has been measured by adopting alterative to DEA techniques, mainly stochastic frontier, is strong justification of the lack of consensus for the most valid approach for measuring seaport efficiency (González and Trujillo, 2007).”