It Infrastructure Services

Efficiency in the provision of port It infrastructure Services :

An application to the container traffic in Spain. In this study we have pursued several goals. First, you want to measure the technical efficiency of service delivery infrastructure at major ports in state container traffic in the period 1990-2002. Secondly, it is intended to examine whether the regulation port conducted the mid-90s had some effect on the efficiency of the port authorities. The works that have analyzed the impact of regulatory changes in various fields port have found that such changes lead to improvements in port efficiency There are certain factors that influence the environment in which businesses operate, as can be, for example, graphic characteristics of a region. Under these circumstances, Lovell (2001) recommends incorporating the features of the operating environments in the analysis.

This consideration leads to the third goal that arises in the application of thumb and that is to incorporate two features that are facing the US ports unevenly. The first is that there are ports island, subject to captive traffic, where the level of competition is reduced, and on the other hand, can be found ports in the mainland, where many alternatives to import or export goods (road, rail, other ports ), Which determines that these ports are facing a greater degree of competition. The second is that some ports are benefiting from the existence of refineries in locations close to it. This fact makes the amount of liquid bulk of these ports are considerably higher than another. The methodology used to measure the technical efficiency is a function of distance, because of its ease to represent the technology infrastructure services of multiproduct production processes, and by not requiring data on prices, which are not comparable in the period under study.