Port competitiveness from the users' perspective: An analysis of major container ports in China and its neighboring countries

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• 作者：Chi-lok Andrew Yuen^a ; ^{andrewyuen@baf.cuhk.edu.hk} ; Anming Zhang^b ; Waiman Cheung^a
• 关键词：Port competitiveness ; Analytic hierarchy process
• 刊名：Research in Transportation Economics
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：P146_07398859
• 类别：soc
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：35
• 期：1
• 页码：34-40
• 文件大小：267 K

摘要

The objective of this paper is to explore the relative importance of factors that determine container port competitiveness from the users' perspective. Three groups of port users - shipping liners, forwarders and shippers - are considered in this paper. The importance of the various factors is determined on the basis of survey results from the industry experts and then obtained via the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Furthermore, we use the results to evaluate ports in Mainland China, Hong Kong and other Asian cities. Given our results, operators of our sample ports could benchmark their performance with their competitors and identify the areas that they need to improve.