This paper is interested to propose an alternative indicator to evaluate the ports productivity performance. This … indicator is called the ports intensity productivity equation. The main objective of the ports intensity productivity equation … to study the ports productivity from a multidimensional perspective. First part of this paper is interested to study the …

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 … variable extension for dealing with endogenous market access indicators. Second, it advances the empirical port literature by …

conducted using Malmquist productivity index (MPI) and critical challenges were identified using interpretive structural … unavailability of data. Practical implications: This study will enable the port decision-makers to identify the ports which are high …