Chapter 24 Review of Port Performance Approaches and a Supply Chain Framework to Port Performance Benchmarking

Nordic Container Port Sustainability Performance—A Conceptual Intelligent Framework

“…In contrast, effectiveness seeks to do the right thing at the right time and place, at the right cost in order to achieve a predetermined desired effect (an overall goal). Despite the widespread of financial and utilization metrics in port industry, and due to the lack of standardization, the focus of performance measurement has moved away from the effectiveness and utilization measures to the efficiency perspective [2]. Efficiency is a fundamental criterion for ports' survival in today's market environment.…”

“…These approaches gained since then a wide acceptance in the field due to the fact that it is a non-parametric approach not requiring a pre-defined explicit functional formulation and allows for ports' benchmarking and ranking. Reference [2] proposed a conceptual integrative framework based on an operational logistics and strategic supply chain management (SCM) perspective. However, despite the fact that it is tested on a number of ports, it is still an illustrative and none conclusive method.…”

“…A lack of integrative framework has already been stressed in the literature, e.g. [2], and this paper intends to address this issue. Which KPIs to measure and what kind of sustainable performance framework to adopt for Nordic container ports are the fundamental questions this paper aims to answer.…”

Time Efficiency at World Container Ports

“…Several works have classified ports based on their physical characteristics, since the seminal work of Tongzon (1995) on performance indicators using multivariate analysis, such as Itoh (2002), Wang et al (2003), Joly and Martell (2003), Cullinane and Wang (2006), Herrera and Pang (2006), and Wu and Goh (2010) among many others (see also Talley, 1994;Tongzon and Ganesalingam, 1994 Other works have put more emphasis on economic indicators, although they often remain difficult to access, such as the monetary and added value of cargo throughput (Lemarchand, 2000), or bound to subjective views approached through interviews with port authorities and transport firms (Ng, 2006) as well as shippers, forwarders, and shipping lines (Tongzon, 2002;Tiwari et al, 2003). Other studies included Supply Chain Management (SCM) aspects into port performance analysis (Bichou, 2006), environmental port performance indicators (Wooldridge et al, 2010) 1 , but also indicators about market trends and structure, socioeconomic impact, environmental performance, logistic chain and operational performance, and governance proposed by organizations such as ESPO 2 and the PPRISM 3 project. Such efforts have been undertaken to go beyond the sole physical approach to port development as well as the cost perspective.…”

An input-output-based methodology to estimate the economic role of a port: The case of the port system of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Italy

“…The performance of a port is depicted in terms of its ability to generate maximum or optimal output and economic wealth. Bichou (2007) lists three main methodologies that have been used to evaluate the economic impact of a port: I-O, computable equilibrium and gravity models. For more recent classifications see Pallis et al (2009) and Coto-Millán et al (2010a).…”