(2007) Evaluating the Location Efficiency of Arabian and African Seaports Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
Furthermore, in a post-DEA stage the article examines the relation between efficiency and the size of a port.Īl-Eraqi, A.S., Barros, C.P., Mustaffa, A. The analysis first discriminates between efficient and non-efficient ports and for the latter it identifies their benchmarks and provides target values for their revenues. For the implementation of this approach we use a sample set of international landlord, multi-activity ports. For that purpose, we present two different modeling approaches: one that relates revenues to the basic throughput and activity of the port and another that takes into consideration land, infrastructure and labor indicators. Despite the plethora of studies on port efficiency, there has been no study to focus on PAs and compare, in terms of efficiency, their revenue generation mechanism. In this article, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we assess and analyze the efficiency of PAs in generating revenues. Port authorities (PAs) generate revenues by guiding, coordinating and exploiting their resources, facilities and infrastructure of their ports.
