Port planners have to make decisions on optimal berth capacity for container port development. The main purpose of this paper is twofold. One is to review the current practices adopted by selected major ports in Asia in estimating berth and port capacities in their planning decisions. The other...

The port sectors in a country play an important role in its economy. This paper presents an input–output analysis on how the port sectors impact a concerned economy using the South African case. Moreover, this paper reports how a rectangular Supply and Use Table system of national accounts can...

This study identifies and compares the financial performance of privatised ports with non-privatised ports using the stochastic frontier profit function and panel data regression analysis. The goal of privatisation is to improve capital utilisation, sharpen managerial incentives and reduce...

This paper finds the inter-relationship of financial ratios to be identified by managers of shipping companies and financial experts and compares their cognition map of the financial ratios by country and by financial expert group, using both decision-making technique laboratory and maximum mean...

Risk analysis in seaports plays an increasingly important role in ensuring port operation reliability, maritime transportation safety and supply chain distribution resilience. However, the task is not straightforward given the challenges, including that port safety is affected by multiple...

Port choice is an important issue to be investigated to ensure the effective integration of container supply chains and the sustainable development of regional economy. The selection of appropriate ports to facilitate shipping activities and international trade is crucial for many stakeholders,...

This paper explores the positions of financial ratios identified utilizing both subjective and objective weighting methods-the consistent fuzzy preference relation (CFPR) and entropy-based on questionnaires collected from experts and the financial statements of major shipping companies in Taiwan...