Title
Drivers explaining the inefficiency of Peruvian and Chilean ports terminals
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Tovar B.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia de la Economía
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
We measure technical efficiency of port terminals in Peru and Chile to evaluate the influence of certain specific explanatory variables that may contribute to reducing inefficiency; one of them is the structural reform that was implemented in the 1990s in both countries. Chilean terminals were more efficient than the Peruvian ones mainly due to greater agility in the implementation of the reform process. Furthermore, the higher the containerization index, the greater the occupancy rate and the bigger the bulk rate, then the lower the inefficiency in terminals is. Also, the inefficiency is lower when the terminal is under private administration. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Start page
190
End page
203
Volume
67
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Planificación del transporte y aspectos sociales del transporte
Ingeniería marina, naves
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84901200275
Source
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
ISSN of the container
13665545
Source funding
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Sponsor(s)
The authors are grateful to the editor and to three anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions, comments and discussions. The authors are also grateful to the participants of various seminars in Europe and Latin America and specially the one celebrated Universidad Nacional del Callao. Lima, 2013. Any remaining error is ours. This research was partially funded with Grant HAR2010-17408 from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain).
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