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The Effects of Market Differences on the Throughput of Large Container Terminals ith Similar Levels of Efficiency
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 function and is essentially an extension of the input-output ratio method of comparing DMUs with single inputs and outputs to a multi-factorial set of comparisons.