Aggregate comparisons of the efficiency of container ports using techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis usually rely on the number of Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) moved across the quay face per year to provide the measure of output from which to derive efficiency measures
Aggregate comparisons of efficiency between container ports and between container terminals routinely adopt frontier analysis techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This is a frontier-based, non-parametric means of comparing the efficiency of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) with common sets of multiple inputs and outputs. It does not require the specification of a production …