Abstract
The Spanish port system is subjected to a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-Bootstrapping analysis of its operational and financial efficiency to be compared to two other scenarios. One of these presents a port cluster based on the grouping of ports because of their proximity, and the second scenario proposes a port cluster based on seafronts. The analysis is made up of a DEA-Bootstrapping of two inputs and two outputs for both the operational and financial efficiency analyses. The results of the DEA-Bootstrapping analysis show a series of results that favour these two scenarios against the present situation, as both the operational and financial efficiency are improved in relation to the current scenario or scenario 0.
Highlights
These results allow us to know and analyse the port authority displaced from the group of 28, or to analyse it according to the grouping of ports, in their different scenarios, in order to be able to compare the results with each other
For the financial efficiency, assets have been taken into account, which is a good that the port authority possesses that can be transferred in monetary units
As opposed to the reference outputs in a port system, which are the total traffic moved in tons in a year, and, in this case, the number of ships has been chosen as an output representative of the operational efficiency, since it is directly related to the income of the different fees charged to a ship
Summary
Analysis for Different Models of Spanish Port Governance. J. The DEA analysis has been carried out in numerous studies, which is why they use this methodology to measure the efficiency of certain port systems, groupings of ports, or, to a greater extent, of the container terminals in different ports throughout the world [11] This methodology allows introducing uncertainty in the analyzed variables, defining tolerances, or possible variations in the selected inputs and/or outputs of the Port Authorities evaluated. For the application of the DEA analysis, two possible scenarios of grouping ports or port authorities (in the case of the Spanish port system) are included to compare the different efficiencies obtained in an experimental way, as well as to evaluate the viability of these proposals in comparison with the current situation.
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