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DOI	10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101107
	Investigating the efficiency of container terminals through a network DEA cross efficiency approach
	Li, Lingyue; Liu, Jing; Yang, Jing; Ma, Xiaozhi; Yuan, Hongping
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2210-5395
EISSN	2210-5409
起始页码	53
卷号	53
英文摘要	In the quest to combat climate change and facilitate sustainable development, improving efficiency is a common and successful method for container terminals. Under such a circumstance, it is critical to accurately estimate the efficiency level of container terminals, so that making more reasonable decision-making. However, many present studies consider container terminal operations as a black box, reliance mostly on their own self-efficiency evaluations, ignoring some important external environmental factors, which can lead to inaccurate results that are hard to compare. To rectify this situation, this paper proposes a new network DEA cross-efficiency model that considers initial structure and GHG emissions of container terminal, co-opetition (competition and cooperation) and peer-evaluation between container terminals, which enables us to attain more accurate and comparable evaluations. Having applied this model to 25 Chinese container terminals in 2019 to analyze their three efficiencies (production operation, profit transformation, and all-in). Then, the effects of different factors on three efficiencies are analyzed by Tobit regression, and a series of efficiency improvement recommendations are proposed. Our findings revealed that while the production operation at these terminals was efficient (with average performance rate of 0.65), both profit transformation and overall efficiency were quite inefficient (averaging 0.23 and 0.35 respectively). Factors such as price for services, quality of services, technology used, and regional economic development level have significant positive effects on overall efficiency. Investment size had a significant negative effect on overall efficiency. Through our research, we have provided vital support for accurately evaluating efficiency in container terminals as well as useful guidance when designing strategies for greater efficiency improvement.
英文关键词	Efficiency evaluation; Container terminal; Data envelopment analysis; Tobit regression
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Transportation
WOS类目	Business ; Management ; Transportation
WOS记录号	WOS:001199088600001
来源期刊	RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/300016
作者单位	Guangzhou Maritime University; Guangzhou University; Guangxi University; University of Helsinki; Guangxi University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Lingyue,Liu, Jing,Yang, Jing,et al. Investigating the efficiency of container terminals through a network DEA cross efficiency approach[J],2024,53.
APA	Li, Lingyue,Liu, Jing,Yang, Jing,Ma, Xiaozhi,&Yuan, Hongping.(2024).Investigating the efficiency of container terminals through a network DEA cross efficiency approach.RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT,53.
MLA	Li, Lingyue,et al."Investigating the efficiency of container terminals through a network DEA cross efficiency approach".RESEARCH IN TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 53(2024).