Lingyue Li , Jing Liu , Jing Yang , Xiaozhi Ma , Hongping Yuan
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Abstract
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.
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Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector