BENCHMARKING PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN CONTAINER TERMINALS AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

A variety of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are commonly used to measure the performance in a container terminal. The assessment proposed this article, and also possible compare different assets under same conditions, driven by reliable data available publicly. Therefore, benchmark KPIs outlined article refer total teu handled year major physical resources terminal, i.e., quay length, gantry cranes yard space. For purpose, it has been Drewry’s database containing relevant up-to-date yearly ranging from throughput infrastructure features many terminals handling minimum number boxes. It proved that size scale tend make them more efficient as they focus on deploy reason being. Brazilian itself usually below regional world average, but country recently through period significant investment improvement port infrastructure, which led leave situation capacity current relative overcapacity.