Comprehensive studies on the impact of market access on port efficiency are scarce, and the problem that market access … Data for measuring port efficiency, and further develops the methodology for panel data and proposes an instrumental … connectivity measures. Our comprehensive assessment suggests that the role of market access in determining port efficiency is …

studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of … port assets or measures that can be very noisy. To avoid these problems, this paper builds a measure of economic efficiency … Western Pacific Oceans in terms of their port efficiency, and assesses the effect of increased efficiency. It finds that …

size is a determining factor of port efficiency. Based on the empirical results, the operational efficiency of both the …In the present study, an attempt has been made to measure the operational efficiency of major, medium and minor ports … advantage gets negated as it is observed that efficiency does not depend on size. Further, the ports that were found to be scale …

This paper examines the role of seaport efficiency in the relationship between trade and welfare outcomes in Africa … estimation technique is used for the empirical analysis. The paper reveals that seaport efficiency and trade enhances welfare … outcomes directly in Africa. More importantly, the paper finds that seaport efficiency complements trade to have its largest …

Purpose - This study aims to investigate the impact of seaport efficiency on economic growth in Ghana over the period … intricate relationship between Seaport Efficiency and Economic Growth. Findings - The findings reveal a statistically … significant and positive association between seaport efficiency and GDP, underscoring the crucial role of efficient seaport …