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Benchmarking Container Port Technical Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

2013; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1596/1813-9450-6680

1813-9450

Javier Morales Sarriera, Gonzalo Araya, Tomás Serebrisky, Cecilia Briceño-Garmendía, Jordan Schwartz,

Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers11 Dec 2013Benchmarking Container Port Technical Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Stochastic Frontier AnalysisAuthors/Editors: Javier Morales Sarriera, Gonzalo Araya, Tomas Serebrisky, Cecilia Briceño-Garmendía, Jordan SchwartzJavier Morales Sarriera, Gonzalo Araya, Tomas Serebrisky, Cecilia Briceño-Garmendía, Jordan Schwartzhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6680SectionsAboutPDF (1.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: This paper presents a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. A 10-year panel is employed with data on container throughput, port terminal area, length of berths, and number of cranes available in 67 ports. The model has three innovations with respect to the available literature: (i) it treats ship-to-shore gantry cranes and mobile cranes separately, in order to account for the higher productivity of the former; (ii) a binary variable is introduced for ports using ships' cranes, treated as an additional source of port productivity; and (iii) a binary variable is used for ports operating as transshipment hubs. The associated parameters are highly significant in the production function. The results show an improvement in the average technical efficiency of ports in the Latin America and the Caribbean region from 36 percent to 50 percent between 1999 and 2009; the best-performing port in 2009 achieved a technical efficiency of 94 percent with respect to the frontier. The paper also studies possible determinants of port technical efficiency, such as ownership, corruption, terminal purpose, income per capita, and location. The results reveal positive, but weak, associations between technical efficiency with landlord ports and with lower corruption levels; stronger results are observed between technical efficiency with specialized container terminals and with average income. Previous bookNext book FiguresReferencesRecommendedDetailsCited ByThe effects of environmental performance on competitiveness and innovation: a stochastic frontier approach for ColombiaEnvironment Systems and Decisions, Vol.42, No.118 August 2021Convex nonparametric least squares and stochastic semi-nonparametric frontier to estimate the shadow prices of PM2.5 and NO x for Taiwan's transportation modesInternational Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Vol.15, No.930 June 2020A SURVEY OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS IN CONTAINER TERMINALSMersin University Journal of Maritime Faculty9 December 2020Understanding Port Choice Determinants and Port Hinterlands: Findings from an Empirical Analysis of SpainMaritime Economics & Logistics, Vol.22, No.124 February 2020When it comes to container port efficiency, are all developing regions equal?Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol.86Institutional structure and agency in the governance of spatial diversification of port system evolution in Latin AmericaJournal of Transport Geography, Vol.51Container Ports in Latin America: Challenges in a Changing Global EconomyThe Structure of Trade Linkages and Economic Growth21 May 2015OECS Ports: An Efficiency and Performance Assessment20 February 2015Connectivity for Caribbean Countries: An Initial Assessment20 February 2015 View Published: October 2013 Copyright & Permissions Related RegionsLatin America & CaribbeanRelated TopicsMacroeconomics and Economic Growth KeywordsTECHNICAL EFFICIENCYSTOCHASTIC FRONTIERSLATIN AMERICA PORTSTRADE CARGO PDF DownloadLoading ...