TABLE 2
FROM:
Decomposing Growth in Portuguese Seaports: A Frontier Cost Approach
Carlos Pestana Barros
BACK TO ARTICLETable 2. Literature review
| Papers | Method | Units | Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roll and Hayuth (1993) | DEA-CCR model | Hypothetical numerical example of 20 ports | Manpower, capital, cargo uniformity | Cargo throughput, level service, consumer satisfaction, ship calls |
| Martinez et al (1999) | DEA-BCC model | 26 Spanish ports, 1993–1997 | Labour expenditure, depreciation charges, other expenditure | Total cargo moved through docks, revenue obtained from rent of port facilities |
| Tongzon (2001) | DEA-CCR additive model | 4 Australian and 12 other international ports for 1996 | Number of cranes, number of container berths, number of tugs, terminal area, delay time, labour | Cargo throughput; ship working rate |
| Valentine and Gray (2001) | DEA-CCR | 31 container ports out of the world's top 100 container ports for the year 1998 | Total length of berth, container berth length | Number of containers, total tonnes throughput |
| Barros (2003a) | DEA-allocative and Technical Efficiency | 5 Portuguese seaports, 1999–2000 | Number of employees, book value of assets | Outputs: ships, movement of freight, gross tonnage, market share, break-bulk cargo, containerised cargo, Ro-Ro traffic, dry bulk, liquid bulk, net income Prices: price of labour measured by salaries and benefits. divided by the number of employees; price of capital measured by expenditure on equipment and premises divided by the book value of physical assets |
| Barros (2003b) | DEA-Malmquist index and a Tobit model | 10 Portuguese seaports, 1990–2000 | Number of employees and book value of assets | Ships, movement of freight, break-bulk cargo, containerised freight, solid bulk, liquid bulk |
| Park and De (2004) | DEA-CCR and BCC | 11 Korean seaports for the year 1999 | Berthing capacity (number of ships) and cargo handling (tonnes) | Cargo throughputs, number of ship calls, revenue and consumer satisfaction |
| Barros and Athanassiou (2004) | DEA-CCR and BCC | 2 Greek and 4 Portuguese seaports | Labour and capital | No. of ships, movement of freight , cargo handled, container handled |
| Liu (1995) | Translog production function | 28 British port authorities, 1983–1990 | Movement of freight (tonnes) | Turnover |
| Coto et al (2000) | Translog Cost model | 27 Spanish Ports, 1985–1989 | Cargo handled (tonnes) | Aggregate port output (includes total goods moved in the port in thousand tonnes, the passenger embarked and disembarked and the number of vehicles with passengers) |
| Estache et al (2001) | Translog and Cobb–Douglas production frontier model | 14 Mexican ports 1996–1999. | Containers handled (tonnes) | Volume of merchandise handled |
| Cullinane et al (2002) | Stochastic Cobb–Douglas production frontier: half normal, exponential, truncated models | 15 Asian container ports observed in 10 years, 1989–1998. | Number of employees | Annual container throughput in TEUs |
| Cullinane and Song (2003) | Stochastic Cobb–Douglas production frontier:half normal, exponential, truncated models | 5 container terminals, Korean and UK, different year of observations (65 observations) | Fixed capital in euros (1998=100) | Turnover derived from the provision of container terminal services, but excluding property sales |
