Productivity changes in Chinese Container Terminals 2006–2011

Bingliang Song and Yuanyuan Cui

Transport Policy, 2014, vol. 35, issue C, 377-384

Abstract: In the past decades, nearly all the Chinese coastal provinces and municipalities invested heavily in the construction of seaports and implemented various favourable policies to improve the ports׳ operations. How effectively have these efforts worked? This paper uses Malmquist productivity index to determine and analyse productivity change and its decomposition in Chinese coastal container terminals during 2006–2011. We find that the average growth in sample terminals׳ productivity is 5.4% during that period. By decomposing the Malmquist index, we identify the major source of productivity growth to be technological progress, rather than an improvement in technical efficiency, and the major source of technical efficiency growth to be scale efficiency. We also find that the productivity of terminals in the Yangtze Delta is the highest while the one of terminals in the southeast coastal area is the lowest.

Keywords: Container terminals; Malmquist productivity index; Technical change; Technical efficiency change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.04.011

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