Using network centralized data envelopment analysis for shipping line resource allocation

Exploring the cargo and eco‐efficiencies of international container shipping companies: A network‐based ranking approach

“…Researchers have lately applied DEA as a favored method in measuring the eco-efficiency (Emrouznejad & Yang, 2018;Kao, 2014;Sueyoshi, Yuan, & Goto, 2017) of plants (Lozano, 2017;Sueyoshi & Goto, 2012), industrial parks (Fan et al, 2017), provinces or regions (Song, Peng, Wang, & Zhao, 2018;Wu, Zhu, Ji, Chu, & Liang, 2016;Zhang, Bi, Fan, Yuan, & Ge, 2008), and industrial sectors (Shao, Yu, & Feng, 2019). Chen et al (2018) and Gong et al (2019) evaluate the efficiency of major shipping carriers considering the negative impact of emissions. Gong et al (2019) used input variables, such as the number of ships, total assets, capacity, employees, capital expenditure, and fuel cost to produce desirable (revenue and lifting) and undesirable (CO 2 , SO X , and NO X ) outputs.…”

“…However, the authors did not consider intermediate products and linking activities in shipping companies (Chao, 2017; Chao et al, 2018) that may cause system inefficiency (Kao, 2014). Gong et al (2019) only used cross‐sectional data in 2015, whereas Chen et al (2018) considered the environmental efficiency of a shipping company. However, Chen et al (2018) only used one Taiwanese shipping firm to examine the existing resource allocation model, and the number of DMUs was insufficient to take care of the constraints required by the DEA model (Dyson et al, 2001).…”

“…Section 4 discusses the main findings, and the final section concludes with the implications and limitations of the paper. Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes (1978) developed DEA that is a suitable efficiency analysis method to evaluate performance for decisionmaking organizations when multiple inputs and outputs are included (Chen et al, 2018;Cook, Liang, Zha, & Zhu, 2009;Kao, 2014). In the shipping industry, Førsund (1992) was the first author that used DEA to evaluate the performance of shipping firms.…”

“…In the past decades, globalization has increased the importance of maritime transportation through the growth of global trade (Gutiérrez, Lozano, & Furió, 2014). As an important part of ocean transportation, the international container shipping sector has progressed impressively (Chen, Yu, & Ho, 2018). Standard containers in liner shipping are remarkably used to move cargo between different transportation modes conveniently (Chao, Yu, & Hsieh, 2018).…”

“…By 2050, the minimum requirement in lowering the total annual greenhouse gas emissions will be 50%, compared with that in 2008. This environmental issue gives additional pressure on global container carriers to increase sustainability performance (Chen et al, 2018; Kim & Lee, 2012). In the future, the container shipping sector may consider green shipping that saves energy and reduces emissions (Chen et al, 2018).…”