BENCHMARKING PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN CONTAINER TERMINALS AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

Abstract

A variety of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are commonly used to measure the performance in a container terminal. The assessment proposed in this article, and also possible to compare different assets under the same conditions, are driven by reliable data available publicly. Therefore, the benchmark KPIs outlined in this article refer to the total teu handled in a year by the total major physical resources available in a container terminal, i.e., the quay length, the quay gantry cranes and the yard space. For this purpose, it has been used the Drewry’s database containing relevant up-to-date yearly data ranging from total throughput to infrastructure features of many terminals handling a relevant minimum number of boxes. It has been proved that the size and scale of terminals tend to make them more efficient as they focus on container handling and deploy resources to this reason being. The performance of Brazilian terminals has proved itself usually below regional and world average, but the country has recently been through a period of significant investment improvement in the container port infrastructure, which has led the country to leave from a situation of under capacity to a current relative overcapacity.