A Comparison of Efficiency with Productivity Criteria for European Container Ports

Benchmarking the efficiency of Asian container ports

In the last decade, the shipping industry and the global seaborne trade has witnessed a rapid growth due to globalization of the world economy, boom in international trade and borderless investments. As competition among international ports has intensified, the evaluation of port operational efficiency has become increasingly important to enable individual ports to reflect on its current status...

Efficiency Analysis of Container Ports and Terminals

A New Connectivity Index for Container Ports

We propose a new index, the Container Port Connectivity Index (CPCI), to measure the trade connectivity of ports within the network of container shipping. This index is based on both economics and network topology, and a distinctive feature is that the strength of a port is based on its position within the global structure of the shipping network and not just on local information such as the nu...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

Efficiency Assessment of Container Operations of Shipping Agents in Spanish Ports

In this paper a two-stage Data Envelopment Approach (DEA) is used to assess the relative efficiency of container shipping agents operating in Spanish ports, studying also its influencing factors. In the first stage, an input-oriented, Variable Returns To Scale (VRS) model is used to compute efficiency scores of the different shipping agents. The model considers labor as input and numbers of loa...