How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries

Would improvements in port performance increase trade in countries on the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans? Previous studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of port...

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Main Authors:	Herrera Dappe, Matias, Jooste, Charl, Suárez-Alemán, Ancor
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	PORTS PORT EFFICIENCY MARITIME TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS TRADE LOGISTICS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/388141506343576100/How-does-port-efficiency-affect-maritime-transport-costs-and-trade-evidence-from-Indian-and-western-Pacific-Ocean-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28449

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spelling	okr-10986-284492021-06-08T14:42:45Z How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries Herrera Dappe, Matias Jooste, Charl Suárez-Alemán, Ancor PORTS PORT EFFICIENCY MARITIME TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS TRADE LOGISTICS Would improvements in port performance increase trade in countries on the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans? Previous 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 based on the use of port inputs to deliver port output. Using data envelop analysis, it ranks countries on the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans in terms of their port efficiency, and assesses the effect of increased efficiency. It finds that becoming as efficient as the country with the most efficient port sector would reduce their average maritime transport costs by up to 14 percent and increase their exports by up to 2.2 percent. 2017-10-05T16:34:28Z 2017-10-05T16:34:28Z 2017-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/388141506343576100/How-does-port-efficiency-affect-maritime-transport-costs-and-trade-evidence-from-Indian-and-western-Pacific-Ocean-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28449 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8204 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia East Africa Middle East Oceania South Asia
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description	Would improvements in port performance increase trade in countries on the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans? Previous 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 based on the use of port inputs to deliver port output. Using data envelop analysis, it ranks countries on the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans in terms of their port efficiency, and assesses the effect of increased efficiency. It finds that becoming as efficient as the country with the most efficient port sector would reduce their average maritime transport costs by up to 14 percent and increase their exports by up to 2.2 percent.
format	Working Paper
author	Herrera Dappe, Matias Jooste, Charl Suárez-Alemán, Ancor
author_facet	Herrera Dappe, Matias Jooste, Charl Suárez-Alemán, Ancor
author_sort	Herrera Dappe, Matias
title	How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries
title_short	How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries
title_full	How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries
title_fullStr	How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries
title_full_unstemmed	How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries
title_sort	how does port efficiency affect maritime transport costs and trade? : evidence from indian and western pacific ocean countries
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/388141506343576100/How-does-port-efficiency-affect-maritime-transport-costs-and-trade-evidence-from-Indian-and-western-Pacific-Ocean-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28449
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How Does Port Efficiency Affect Maritime Transport Costs and Trade? : Evidence from Indian and Western Pacific Ocean Countries

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