| Summary |
Tseng Wen Chun, 2007,06
Institute of Traffic and Transportation National Chiao Tung University
Productivity is one important indicator of port competitiveness, evaluation of productivity among different ports provide information regarding relative advantages and disadvantages of each port, as well as direction of future improvement and development. Although many research work have been addressed to compare the productivity of container ports in Asia Pacific, conventional DEA method were mostly used in those literature. In view of the theoretical limitation inherent to the method, this study adopts newly developed three-stage DEA method to analyze the similar problem, based on the recently update data. This study finds out that “scale inefficiency” is the major influence of “technical inefficiency” for many container ports, and that the effect of environmental factors and statistical noise on productivity are very significant. As far as the relative efficiency of the three container ports in Taiwan are concerned, Kaohsiung is one of the relative efficient port in the region, but more improvement efforts are required for Keelung and Taichung to become relative efficient. |
