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...

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...

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...

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...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate key critical factors for developing transit trade corridors (TTCs) in optimizing trade and logistics performance, taking into account economic, geographic and political concerns among countries in the Northeast Asia region, which have been...