Container Port Production and Management

• Main Authors: Lu, Bo (Author), Wang, Shouyang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Industries.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.

This book helps to solve the problem of substantial waste and inefficiency in port production by analyzing operational efficiency at more than 30 Chinese and Korean leading container ports using three types of DEA model. In addition it offers a returns-to-scale analysis, which is particularly useful...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1.1 Background of Research
• 1.2 Purpose and Method of Research
• Ⅱ. DEA Conceptual Exposition and Literature Review
• 2.1 Data Envelopment Analysis Conceptual Exposition
• 2.2 Economic Meanings of DEA Efficiency
• 2.3 Literature Review of DEA to Container Terminals
• Ⅲ. Evaluation Modeling for Container Terminal
• 3.1 Approach of Definition Variables
• 3.2 Implementation of Definition Variables
• 3.3 Definition of Output Variable
• 3.4 Definition of Inputs Variables
• 3.5 Standardization of Output and Input Variables
• 3.6 Flow Process of DEA Analyses
• 3.7 Research Procedure
• Ⅳ. Data Collection and Analysis
• 4.1 Outline of Chinese Container Ports
• 4.2 Outline of Korean Container Ports
• 4.3 Collected Data Analysis
• Ⅴ. Efficiency Analysis and Implication
• 5.1 Efficiency Analysis of Container Terminals
• 5.2 Implication of Efficiency Analysis
• Ⅵ. Conclusion.