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http://dx.doi.org/10.38121/kpea.2021.03.37.1.19

Evaluating the Efficiency of Chinese Ports from the Perspective of Maritime Silk Road  

Wang, Guan (인천대학교 동북아물류대학원)
Ahn, Seung-Bum (인천대학교 동북아물류대학원)
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Journal of Korea Port Economic Association / v.37, no.1, 2021 , pp. 19-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) is an important part of Belt and Road Initiative(BRI). As an economic and trade corridor for dozens of countries in Asia, Europe and Africa, and the port as an important link node, the efficiency of port operation directly affects the implementation of BRI's strategy. On the basis of combining BRI and related evaluation methods of port efficiency, this paper uses DEA-BCC model to select port production berth number and production berth length as input index container throughput and cargo throughput as output index to analyze the port efficiency of 14 ports in China. The results show that: (1) The overall efficiency level of the ports along the MSR is relatively low. Most of the ports have not reached the DEA efficiency and there are different degrees of problems in scale investment and technological improvement. However, this situation is accompanied by the implementation of China's maritime cooperation strategy and becoming better year by year. (2) The low operating efficiency of ports along China's MSR is mainly due to the lack of coordination between scale efficiency and technical efficiency, which is caused by insufficient scale investment in the port itself, weak economic linkage between the hinterland and the port, (3) Whether a port has a strong comprehensive strength does not entirely depend on the cargo throughput or scale but also includes the port's operating efficiency.
Keywords
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); 21st- Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR); Port Efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) BCC model;
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