Container port production and economic efficiency:
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables xi
List of Figures xii
Glossary of Symbols and Abbreviations xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Foreword xvii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 The importance of the container port industry 1
1.2 Performance measurement, productivity
and efficiency 2
1.3 Measuring performance in the
container port industry 8
1.4 Problem statement 9
1.5 Objectives 11
1.6 Organisation of the book 11
2 The Economic Theory of Container Port Production 13
2.1 Introduction 13
2.2 The economic functions of ports and their evolution 14
2.3 The container port industry: the challenge
of complexity 16
2.4 The challenge from other market players 18
2.5 Traditional theories of industrial market structure 21
2.6 Port competition 22
2.6.1 Inter-port competition 22
2.6.2 Intra-port competition 27
2.7 Summary 32
3 Alternative Approaches to Efficiency Measurement 33
3.1 Background 33
3.2 Notation and symbols used 37
3.3 Data envelopment analysis 39
3.3.1 Introduction to DEA 39
3.3.2 DEA approaches using cross-sectional data 40
3.3.3 DEA approaches using panel data 45
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3.4 Free disposal hull analysis 49
3.5 Econometric approaches using
cross-sectional data 51
3.5.1 Deterministic frontier econometric
approaches 51
3.5.2 Stochastic frontier approaches 55
3.6 Econometric approaches using panel data 58
3.7 Empirical comparisons of alternative
approaches to efficiency estimation 61
3.8 Performance measurement and efficiency
analysis in the container port industry 63
3.8.1 General performance measurement 63
3.8.2 Efficiency measurement in the
port industry: the DEA approach 66
3.8.3 Efficiency measurement in the port
industry: the SFA approach 69
3.8.4 Lessons to be learned from applying
DEA and SFA to port efficiency measurement 72
3.9 Summary 75
4 Model Specification and Data 77
4.1 Introduction 77
4.2 A procedure for efficiency measurement 77
4.3 Port objectives 79
4.4 Definition of variables 81
4.5 Model specification 87
4.6 Data collection 89
4.7 Summary 92
5 Empirical Results and Analysis 93
5.1 Introduction 93
5.2 Cross-sectional data analysis 93
5.2.1 Non-parametric frontier estimation: DEA
versus FDH 93
5.2.2 Parametric frontier estimation: COLS versus SFA 98
5.2.3 Comparison between non-parametric and
parametric frontier models using
cross-sectional data 102
5.3 Panel data analysis 103
5.3.1 DEA panel analysis 103
Contents ix
5.3.2 Time-invariant efficiency analysis using
panel data 106
5.3.3 Time-varying efficiency analysis using
panel data 109
5.3.4 Comparison between non-parametric
and parametric frontier models using
panel data 110
5.4 Summary 113
6 A Theory of Container Port Production and its
Empirical Validation 116
6.1 Introduction 116
6.2 Testing the hypotheses 116
6.3 Summary 136
7 Conclusions and Further Research 140
7.1 Introduction 140
7.2 A summary of major research contributions 140
7.2.1 Contribution to container port
production theory 140
7.2.2 Contribution to methodological choice in
measuring efficiency 143
7.3 Recommendations for further research 144
Appendices 147
Appendix 1 Terminal Efficiency of the CCR,
BCC and FDH Models 147
Appendix 2 Efficiency Yielded from Alternative
Parametric Approaches 149
Appendix 3 DEA-CCR Window Analysis for
Container Port Efficiency 151
Appendix 4 DEA-BCC Window Analysis for
Container Port Efficiency 158
Appendix 5 DEA-CCR Contemporaneous Analysis
of Container Port Efficiency 165
Appendix 6 DEA-BCC Contemporaneous Analysis of
Container Port Efficiency 166
Appendix 7 DEA-CCR Intertemporal Analysis of
Container Port Efficiency 167
Appendix 8 DEA-BCC Intertemporal Analysis of
Container Port Efficiency 168
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Appendix 9 Technical-invariant Efficiency
Estimated by Alternative Models 169
Appendix 10 Time-varying Efficiency by MLE 170
References 171
Index 183
List of Tables
2.1 Port facilities and services 14
2.2 The development of ports 15
2.3 Linkages between economic globalisation and
the supply of transportation resources 19
2.4 Port function matrix 28
3.1 Taxonomy of frontier methodologies 36
3.2 Single input and single output 40
3.3 Efficiency estimates by maximum likelihood 57
3.4 Summary of performance indicators suggested
by UNCTAD 64
3.5 The application of DEA to ports 67
3.6 The application of SFA to ports 70
4.1 Summary statistics for sample 1 90
4.2 Summary statistics for sample 2 91
5.1 Summary of the terminal efficiency estimates
of the CCR, BCC and FDH models 94
5.2 Summary results on numbers of efficient
terminals with DEA models and the FDH model 96
5.3 Frontier production functions of container terminals 100
5.4 Summary of the efficiency yielded from
alternative parametric approaches 101
5.5 Spearman s rank order correlation coefficient 103
5.6 Frontier production function of container ports 108
5.7 Spearman s rank order correlation coefficient 109
5.8 Frontier production function of container ports 109
6.1 Relationship between production size and efficiency 118
6.2 Relationship between scale of production and
fluctuations in efficiency 119
6.3 Markets and inter-port competition 124
6.4 Relationship between inter-port competition
and efficiency 130
6.5 Ownership status of the sample container ports 130
6.6 Terminal efficiency of the CCR, BCC and FDH models 137
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List of Figures
1.1 DMU and homogeneous units 2
1.2 Performance measures and organisational development 3
1.3 Illustration of efficiency and productivity 5
1.4 Comparison between technical and allocative efficiency 7
2.1 Privatisation and port performance 30
3.1 Farrell s measurement of efficiency 34
3.2 Alternative approaches to efficiency
measurement derived from Farrell 35
3.3 Comparison of efficiencies of container terminals 41
3.4 Comparison of efficiencies of container terminals 43
3.5 Conceptual illustration of contemporaneous,
intertemporal and window analyses 47
3.6 Non-parametric deterministic frontiers 49
3.7 Alternative panel data approaches to
efficiency measurement 62
4.1 A performance measuring system 78
4.2 Constraining influences on port management 81
5.1 Sample size and proportion of inefficient firms 97
5.2 Skewness of the OLS residuals for
cross-sectional data 99
5.3 Comparison of efficiency yielded from
various approaches 102
5.4 Year-by-year average efficiency for all container ports 105
5.5 Skewness of the OLS residuals for panel data 107
5.6 Comparison of average efficiency by
alternative approaches 111
5.7 Comparison of the efficiency of Hong Kong
container port yielded by alternative approaches 112
6.1 Overall level of concentration in the container
port industry as measured by the HHI 121
6.2 Geographic locations of the world s top container ports 123
6.3 Hypothesised relationship between inter-port
competition and efficiency 125
6.4 Relationship between inter-port competition
and efficiency with reference to cross-sectional data 126
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List of Figures xiii
6.5 Relationship between inter-port competition
and efficiency with reference to cross-sectional data 127
6.6 Relationship between inter-port competition
and efficiency with reference to panel data
(Contemporaneous analysis) 128
6.7 Relationship between inter-port competition
and efficiency with reference to panel data
(Intertemporal analysis) 129
6.8 Ownership classification of the container ports
in the sample 131
6.9 Ownership versus efficiency 132
6.10 Ownership versus efficiency 133
6.11 Ownership versus efficiency with reference to
container ports in China 134
6.12 Ownership versus efficiency with reference to
container ports in China 135
6.13 Efficiency and variation of different terminals at
individual ports 138
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