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Comparison of Efficiencies of Container Ports in the East Asia, Europe, and North America  

Park, Koo-Woong (인천대학교 무역학부)
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Journal of Korea Port Economic Association / v.26, no.4, 2010 , pp. 219-246 More about this Journal
Abstract
Countries around the world are propelling policies and strategies to strengthen the competitiveness of their own ports as they recognize the roles and importance of the ports in the international trade and logistics. The main objective of this study is to compare efficiencies of major container ports and analyze the factors that affect the efficiencies in the three regions of East Asia, Europe, and North America, which cover most of world container shipping. We employ DEA models in analyzing the efficiencies of 45 container ports using 5 input and 2 output variables. We also carry out regression analyses to estimate the impacts of each factor on the throughput (TEU), overall technical efficiency (OTE), pure technical efficiency (PTE), and scale efficiency (SE). The analysis results show that East Asian ports, despite being smaller in average size, make greater output and achieve higher technical and scale efficiencies than European or North American ports.
Keywords
Container Terminal; DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis); Efficiency; Tobit Regression Analysis;
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