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Cargo handling in ports is a multioutput activity, as freight can arrive in many forms such as containers, bulk, rolling stock, or non-containerised general cargo. In this paper, the operation of cargo handling firms in a Spanish port is analysed through the estimation of a multioutput cost model that uses monthly data on three representative firms located at the Las Palmas port. This permits the...
Mexico's port system was centrally managed by public firms until 1993 reforms liberalized and decentralized it to regional port authorities to improve its efficiency. This paper measures the changes in, and sources of, efficiency since the reforms. We rely on a Malmquist index to calculate and decompose changes in productivity, in terms of infrastructure, for Mexico's 11 main ports between 1996 and...
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