Evaluating and Benchmarking Productive Performance of Shipping Companies

Abstract:

As the shipping service has become similar standard, to seek for expansion and competitive advantages, the industry would either increase its quality or decrease operating costs. Although it was highly competitive in the industry, as the corporations have become internationalized, many logistics were dependent on the shipping transportation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze efficiency and productivity growth of shipping company in the world for the period 2000–2010. The Malmquist Productivity Indexes was based on the distance functions to decompose the productivity growth into two mutually exclusive components: technical efficiency change and technical change overtime, which measures the change in efficiency frontier shift. From the results, we know that pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency change during the financial crisis is worse.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 284-287)
• Pages: 3675-3678
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.284-287.3675
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Ching Tsung Hung
• Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Financial Crisis, Malmquist Productivity Indexes

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