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Trans. Planning Journal

Title Applying Dea To Evaluate The Performance Of International Container Ports Across The Taiwan
Author Shih-Liang Chao, Jen-Der Chang
Summary

  The rapid growth of China’s economy has not only caused a boom in its container ports, but also affects the container throughput of the ports across the Taiwan Strait through particular cooperative business models. This study aims to evaluate the performance of 16 international container ports across the Taiwan Strait and identify key factors for allocating operation resources of each port. For each decision making unit (DMU), six inputs (number of container berths, lengths of container berths, terminal areas, yard capacities, number of gantry cranes and number of reefer plugs) and one output (annual container throughput) are taken into account. CCR and BCC models, which are the basic models of data envelopment analysis (DEA) are used to measure the efficiency of each DMU. To deal with the problem of unlimited multipliers, the assurance region (AR) model is deployed to more precisely measure the efficiency of DMU. In addition, the Malmquist productivity index (MPI) is also calculated to identify the intertemporal efficiency of each DMU. The analytical results show that Lianyungang and Ningbo are ahead of other DMUs in terms of current operation efficiency and MPI. Therefore, these two ports can be used as the benchmarks for other DMUs as they have been operated efficiently.

Vol. 40
No. 3
Page 233
Year 2011
Month 9
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