Efficiency of Infrastructure : The Case of Container Ports

• Tác giả: Santiago Herrera
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 627.3 Port facilities
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 303489
• Chủ đề: 1. Capacity D240; 2. Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; 3. Cost; 4. Production; 5. Railroads and Other Surface Transportation L920

Tóm tắt

 This paper gauges efficiency in container ports. Using non-parametric methods, we estimate efficiency frontiers based on information from 86 ports across the world. Three attractive features of the method are: 1) it is based on an aggregated measure of efficiency despite the existence of multiple inputs
  2) it does not assume particular input-output functional relationships
  and 3) it does not rely on a priori peer selection to construct the benchmark. Results show that the most inefficient ports use inputs in excess of 20 to 40 percent. Since infrastructure costs represent about 40 percent of total maritime transport costs, these could be reduced by 12 percent by moving from the inefficient extreme of the distribution to the efficient one.