关键词: 水路运输, 运营效率, 三阶段DEA模型, 沿海集装箱码头, 航运企业投资

Abstract:

With the way of port investment becomes diversified, people witness that shipping enterprises transform into integrated logistic enterprises. That makes the merge of port and shipping enterprises becomes a new trend in the shipping industry. Under this circumstance, the three-stage DEA model is adopted to estimate the efficiency of coastal container terminal from 2008 to 2012 in China. The terminal will be divided into two groups based on investment structure. The relationship between investment structure and operation efficiency of container terminals is which the analysis focuses on in the latter section. The research outcomes show that the efficiency of container terminals incorporated with shipping enterprises is commonly higher than that of container terminals without any shipping enterprises’investment. The difference of pure technical efficiency is tiny, but the difference of scale efficiency is enormous. Shipping enterprise’s investment make vessels dock at its own terminal, which enhances the utilization of facilities. That turns out that the investment of shipping enterprises can promote the development of terminal enterprises.

Key words: waterway transportation, efficiency, three-stage DEA model, coastal container terminal, shipping enterprise investment