Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian...

Last decades show a Productivity Slowdown at the macro level, but at the micro level we have seen a huge attention for business economics and operations management and we now have a decade of booming stock markets. This paper tries to tackle that paradox by singling out the issue of Efficient...