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Evaluating the Location Efficiency of Arabian and African Seaports Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

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Ahmed Salem Al-Eraqi
Carlos Pestana Barros
Adli Mustaffa
Ahamad Tajudin Khader

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In this paper the efficiency and performance is evaluated for 22 seaports in the region of East Africa and the Middle East. The aim of our study is to compare seaports situated on the maritime trade road between the East and the West. These are considered as middledistance ports at which goods from Europe and Far East/Australia can be exchanged and transhipped to all countries in the Middle East and East Africa. All these seaports are regional coasters, and dhow trade was built on these locations, leading this part of the world to become an important trade centre. Data was collected for 6 years (2000-2005) and a non-parametric linear programming method, DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is applied. The ultimate goal of our study is: 1) to estimate the performance levels of the ports under consideration. This will help in proposing solutions for better performance and developing future plans. 2) to select optimum transhipment locations.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics at the School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Technical University of Lisbon. in its series Working Papers with number 2007/19.

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Keywords: Middle East and East African Seaports Data Envelopment Analysis Seaports Efficiency Performance measurement of Containers Ports transshipment.

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