Evaluating impacts of institutional reforms on port efficiency changes: Ownership, corporate structure, and total factor productivity changes of world container ports

Cheon, SangHyun; Dowall, David E.; Song, Dong Ho

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2009.04.001

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“…The basic idea is that if efficiency change has occurred over a long period, temporal changes in efficiency can be attributed to two different sources related to port conditions, planning and management. These are: (a) frontier shift effects and (b) catch-up effects (Cheon 2007a, Estache, González, and Trujillo 2002, Estache, De La Fe, and Trujillo 2004. The frontier shift effects involve shift in the productive efficiency frontier and occur as a result of significant changes in technological progress.…”

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Productivity change in Nigerian seaports after reform: a Malmquist productivity index decomposition approach

Nwanosike

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Warnock-Smith

2016

Maritime Policy & Management

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During the 1990s, Nigerian seaports were considered inefficient, unsafe due to massive cargo theft (wharf rat phenomenon) and one of the most expensive port systems in the world. This resulted in long turnaround times for ships and increased container dwell times. As a result, port operations were transferred to the private sector through concession contracts. This paper employs a Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) technique to benchmark pre-and post-reform total factor productivity growth of the six major Nigeria seaports (Apapa, Calabar, Onne, Port Overall productivity growth was higher in the pre-concession period compared to the postconcession period. The source of pre-concession period productivity growth was technological progress while the change in productivity of the post-concession period is generated by an increase in scale efficiency. This suggests that concessionaires have not brought in the much anticipated investment in modern technology to drive port efficiency. The ports of Calabar and Apapa experienced the highest productivity growth while lowest result was Onne.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Productivity change in Nigerian seaports after reform: a Malmquist productivity index decomposition approach

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Warnock-Smith

2016

Maritime Policy & Management

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“…Given the importance of maritime transport for Costa Rica as means to connect with international markets, the country would benefit from adopting the management concept of landlord port, whereby port authorities owns and manages the land and basic ports' infrastructure that are then rented or leased to different private port operators on a competitive basis. Similar changes in Mexico and other countries have resulted in significant improvements in the productivity of ports and reductions in cargo handling charges (Estache et al, 2004;Cheon et al, 2010).…”

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Costa Rica: Boosting productivity to sustain income convergence

Pisu

2016

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03399434Complete document available on OLIS in its original format This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. ECO/WKP(2016)42 Unclassified English -Or. English ECO/WKP(2016)42 2 OECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s).Working Papers describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on which the OECD works.Comments on Working Papers are welcomed, and may be sent to OECD Economics Department, 2 rue André-Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France, or by e-mail to eco.contact@oecd.org.All Economics Department Working Papers are available at www.oecd.org/eco/workingpapers This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.Latvia was not an OECD member at the time of preparation of this paper. Accordingly, Latvia is not included in the list of OECD countries and is not included in the area totals. © OECD (2016)You can copy, download or print OECD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of OECD as source and copyright owner is given. All requests for commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to rights@oecd.org ECO/WKP(2016)42 3 ABSTRACT/RÉSUMÉCosta Rica: Boosting productivity to sustain income convergenceIn the latest 30 years, Costa Rica's real GDP per capita has more than doubled, driven by increasing labour utilisation. Labour productivity has instead stagnated at around 30% of the more advanced OECD countries. Productivity growth has been lacklustre despite the opening up of markets to international competition and large FDI inflows. Several obstacles continue to hamper the development of domestic firms and markets. They have fostered a dual speed economy characterised, on the one hand, by an innovative, productive and export oriented FDI sector -increasingly focussing on high value added sectors -and, on the other hand, a domestic sector -dominated by small firms and focused on traditional industries -that is neither innovative nor very productive. Boosting national productivity to sustain the convergence process towards OECD countries liv...

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“…Previous research faced a pitfall as mainly illustrative and operational research using container throughput data [42][43][44][45] and Gini coefficient [46][47][48] to quantify concentration or de-concentration. Ngonly focused on critical review study on port geography over a half century [9].…”

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Functional Differentiation and Sustainability: A New Stage of Development in the Chinese Container Port System

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Adjacent ports played a significant role in the evolution of the port system. In our study, we selected five pairs (i.e., Dalian-Yingkou, Qingdao-Yantai, Shanghai-Ningbo, Xiamen-Quanzhou, and Shenzhen-Guangzhou) of the most important adjacent ports in China to reveal the recent trend of China unique port system development; how and why will port system development be de-concentrated; and integrate the conceptual modal into in-depth analysis. The major findings are as follows: (1) There is functional differentiation in adjacent ports. To some big ports' sustainability, they focus on foreign trade while other small ports, in order to achieve sustainable development, they focus on domestic trade; (2) First-mover advantage and dislocation competition is a mechanism of China ports functional differentiation; (3) Shanghai and Ningbo are unique in that both ports are similarly focused on foreign trade because they both have deep-water harbors, excellent geographical location, export-oriented hinterland economy, and close foreign investment relationships.

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Evaluating impacts of institutional reforms on port efficiency changes: Ownership, corporate structure, and total factor productivity changes of world container ports

Cited by 157 publications

References 19 publications

Productivity change in Nigerian seaports after reform: a Malmquist productivity index decomposition approach

Productivity change in Nigerian seaports after reform: a Malmquist productivity index decomposition approach

Costa Rica: Boosting productivity to sustain income convergence

Functional Differentiation and Sustainability: A New Stage of Development in the Chinese Container Port System

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