Abstract
DEA window analysis has been a great tool used in improving the economic impacts of ports through its efficiency analysis. This has been employed to ports found in West Africa, Europe, Asia ports; nonetheless, this has not been applied to Indian Ocean Island ports. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the port efficiencies of four island port countries found in the West Indian Ocean (port Reunion, the port of Colombo, Port Louis and the port of Toamasina). DEA window analysis is used to determine port efficiency and to observe the possibility of changes in port efficiency over time. Despite the measures were put in place to improve the efficiency of the port, corruption, unskilled labour and others are some inefficiencies that hinder the performance of the port. Implications and future research directions are also included in this study.
Highlights
BackgroundThe Indian Ocean is fast becoming the new centre of economic gravity, as it ties together the economic fortunes of emerging Asia, the US, and Europe
This study was conducted to estimate the efficiency of four ports belonging to four major islands of the western Indian Ocean for the years 2008-2018, as well as to determine their level of efficiency among them
The efficiency of these ports is determined over time by applying the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) window analysis
Summary
The Indian Ocean is fast becoming the new centre of economic gravity, as it ties together the economic fortunes of emerging Asia, the US, and Europe. There are several Islands in the Indian Ocean who could benefit from maritime transport, like Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Reunion Island and Madagascar. Found in the south-west of the Indian Ocean, Reunion and Mauritius form the Mascarene archipelago. Sri Lanka, whose geographical positioning is very strategic, is located at the southern tip of the only continental mass extending to the Indian Ocean between Arab and Malay peninsulas. Their strategic position naturally gives Sri Lanka an additional competitive advantage to develop as an Asian maritime centre. The development of the port of Colombo as the central port hub of the region in the 19th and 20th centuries was greatly facilitated by this competitive advantage of strategic positioning
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