Studies that have identified the various factors influencing a port’s performance and efficiency are few. Furthermore, these studies have failed to quantify the relative contributions of these factors to overall port performance and efficiency. This article attempts to fill this gap by establishing a model of port performance and efficiency. Specifically, it aims to specify and empirically te…
In recent years there have been significant changes to the logistics environment in which ports operate, which is now focused on supply chain management, global networking and customer orientation practices. Furthermore, ports have adopted different strategies concerning their level and form of integration into supply chains, service quality and provision of value-added activities. Traditional …
This chapter presents methodologies for evaluating the economic performance of a port. This performance may be evaluated from the standpoint of technical efficiency, cost efficiency and effectiveness by comparing the port’s actual throughput with its economic technically efficient, cost efficient and effectiveness optimum throughput, respectively. The port’s economic performance may also be…
This book is a product of five years of effort and a labour of love on the part of many. In the summer of 2001, a group of researchers interested in port governance and devolution, and their impact on port performance, met in Hong Kong. The research content of the book evolved over subsequent meetings in Panama in November 2002, Belgium in July 2003, Izmir in July 2004 and Cyprus in July 2005. …
The purpose of this paper is to report a comparative investigation of port performance between Western Europe and Eastern Asia and develop a strategy to improve their port performance accordingly. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive literature review is conducted in order to identify factors for port performance evaluation. A large-scale questionnaire survey is employed in two port …
The changing role of seaports in supply chains has been the subject of extensive research in the recent literature. The strategic development of seaport terminals, responding to the need for closer integration into supply chains, invites a more detailed examination of the influence of the supply chain structures on seaport performance. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the effects of su…
The purpose of this paper is to know what scientific literature presents about the theme evaluation of seaport performance, thus enabling the construction of knowledge in the researchers and the identification of gaps in the research that will lead to advances in the area from the identification of the characteristics of a portfolio of relevant international publications
Indonesia is developing the archipelago pendulum system to create a distribution channel of the ports from west region to east region of Indonesia for domestic trade. This study analyses is about the readiness of Tanjung Priok port as one designated port in shipping corridors to serve as a domestic container hub port in this pendulum system.
Tanjung Priok port is still ne…This research paper tries to look at the proper container-handling on port operations including quay crane productivity. There arc single and double cycling model that can be analyzed. Single cycling model is known as a conventional model which operates all unloading and loading sequence separately. Double cycling model is a complex model by combining unloading operation with loading operation …