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Abstract According to Containerisation International Yearbook 2004, there are 16 Asian ports ranked in the top 30 of world’s leading container ports. It reveals that Asian ports maintain their competitive advantage in the shipping industry and container transportation. Though they are located in the same region—Asia, there are severe competitions among them. All these port authorities consider the enhancement of the overall operational performance as their first priority. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the operational efficiency of the international container ports in Asia. The efficiency variation for each port and efficiency difference among ports are analyzed. For those relatively inefficient ports, the sources of the inefficiency are identified; the direction and adjusting range for the improvement are also proposed. The 20 candidate ports considered in this paper are Asian ports ranked in the top 30 plus Keelung and Taizhong ports. The CCR and BCC models are employed as efficiency analysis tools in the dimensions of input-orientation and output-orientation. We use the two-stage approach to find the efficiencies and slacks. Candidate ports are analyzed with respect to the technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency, return to scale and reference set analysis. Finally, ports are ranked according to their efficiencies.
Keywords:Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), management performance, international container ports
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