The paper analyzes factors affecting the competitiveness of Asian container terminals by including quantitative as well as qualitative factors such as operating capacity, convenient facilities, electronic documents handling capacity and connectivity to hinterland. I provide evidence that those factors have a nonnegligible role as to competitiveness of container terminals. The paper applies a pa…
The theory was shown to explain the behavior of port stakeholders in improving competitiveness by balancing the need to attract new customers with that of attracting new investors when making decisions, which can often be contradictory. The analysis showed significant effects for the 5 variables of Volume Competitiveness and the 5 variables of Investment Competitiveness.
Few studies have investigated the quantitative relationship between port ownership structure and port efficiency with mixed results. This study applies a stochastic frontier model proposed by Battese and Coelli [Battese, G.E., Coelli, T.J., 1995. A model for technique inefficiency effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data. Empirical Economics 20, 325–332], which inco…
The objective of this paper is to explore the relative importance of factors that determine container port competitiveness from the users’ perspective. Three groups of port users e shipping liners, forwarders and shippers e are considered in this paper. The importance of the various factors is determined on the basis of survey results from the industry experts and then obtained via the analyt…
E-transformation in container ports means a comprehensive improvement in information system, which effectively meets customers’ requirements and needs by timely providing them with useful terminal management information. There is a considerable theoretical literature on the impact of e-transformation on business performance but there is very little empirical study on its impact on ports. The …