Technical Efficiency Analysis of Container Terminals in the Middle Eastern Region

Economic efficiency evaluation system of maritime container terminals

“…Most papers focused on the technical effi-ciency analysis (see e.g. : Almawsheki & Shah, 2015;Jiang & Li, 2009) or a relation between different types of efficiencies (see e.g. : Bichou, 2013;Kaselimi et al, 2011), but there is no research introducing an overall economic efficiency model.…”

“…The most applied kind of efficiency is a technical or exploitation efficiency understood as an ability to handle more containers (see e.g. : Almawsheki & Shah, 2015;Kutin et al, 2017). This simple definition is extended by other researchers.…”

“…The results show that ports with three or four terminals are the most efficient while transhipment ports are less efficient. Almawsheki & Shah (2015) examined 19 container terminals located in the Middle-East region, and based on DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) method they show that almost 85% of terminals are inefficient. They used output variable, which was container throughput in TEU and five input variables: terminal area, quay length, number of quay cranes, number of yard equipment and maximum draft.…”

“…Even though the problem of technical efficiency of maritime container terminal is widely analysed (see e.g. : Almawsheki & Shah, 2015;Cullinane et al, 2002;Jiang & Li, 2009;Kutin et al, 2017;Tongzon, 2001;Zheng & Park, 2016), and some researchers focus on developing port performance indicators (Di Vaio et al, 2018), technical port efficiency (Lopez-Bermudez et al, 2019) or decision support tools for container terminals (Kapetanis et al, 2016), there is a lack of proper models for overall economic efficiency evaluation in the literature.…”

Efficiency Analysis with non parametric method: Illustration of the Tunisian ports

“…Other studies have utilized cross-sectional data to assess the efficiency of ports or terminals such as [34]; [28]; [11]; [2]; [35], [1]; [16]; [36]; [19]; [24]; [27]; [4] and [17]. Wang et al, [34] Cross-sectional 57 international container ports Rios and Maçada [28] Cross-sectional 23 MERCOSUR container Terminals Cullinane and Wang [11] Cross-sectional 69 European container terminals(2002) Kaisar et al, [20] Panel 20 US container ports Al-Eraqi et al [2] Cross-sectional 22 ports in Middle East and East Africa Liu et al, [21] Panel 45 Chinese container terminals Min and Park [23] Panel 11 Korean terminals Wu and Liang [35] Cross-sectional 77 world container ports Ab-Rosas and Ru Torres [1] Cross-sectional 29 Mexican coastal ports Al-Eraqi et al, [3] Panel 22 ports in East Africa and Middle East Cullinane and Wang [12] Panel 25 leading container ports Hung et al, [16] Cross-sectional 31 container ports in Asia-Pacific region Wu and Goh [36] Cross-sectional 20 largest container ports in countries Kamble et al, [19] Cross-sectional 12 Indian ports Munisamy and Singh [24] Cross-sectional 69 major Asian Container ports Niavis and Tsekeris [27] Cross-sectional 30 Europe Demirel et al, [13] Panel data 16 Mediterranean Bichou [7] Panel data 420 International container terminals Schøyen and Odeck [31] Panel data 24 container ports in Norway, Nordic and UK Mokhtar and Shah [26] Panel data 6 Malaysien container terminals Munisamy and Jun [25] Panel data 30 Latin American Infante and Gutiérrez [18] Panel data 33 Asian Pacific region ...…”