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This study provides port administrators with insights on how to effectively improve business attractiveness for greater sustainability and competitive advantages with rival ports within the same geographical proximity.
In particular, the findings of this study suggest that Korea’s investment in ports should be concentrated on ports with competitive advantages.
The container throughput of transshipment sea ports has a significant negative effect on bulk traffic, whereas that of transshipment river ports has a positive effect.
Most ports do not appear to be thinking about, let alone actively preparing to address, the effects of climate change.
To be most useful, this remote server also should provide some way for users to check the fit of their models, without disclosing actual data values.
Based on the decomposed Malmquist Productivity Index efficiency indices, this study creates a typology of ports regarding whether, and how, they have improved their efficiency over the last decade.
The paper reveals how both ports remain institutionally different in spite of competition.
Based on the measurement results, the 4-ports measurement shows good correlation with the 2-ports measurement especially at 500m distance.
The author concludes that full cost recovery for private ports, privatised ports, as well as for public ports, remains an elusive ideal.
The findings demonstrate that though West African ports have bigger ports size and have a higher Container throughput TEUs compared to East African ports, these ports are in general less efficient than East African ports.
The present research demonstrates that although there is a high percentage of European ports that have already identified their Significant Environmental Aspects (SEA), most of these ports do not use any standardized method.
It is argued that there were two distinct phases of port privatisation in the UK, with phase I involving the sale of state-owned ports and railway ports in the early 1980s, and phase II the disposal of major trust ports.