Competitiveness of Asian Container Terminals

The paper analyzes factors affecting the competitiveness of Asian container terminals by including quantitative as well as qualitative factors such as operating capacity, convenient facilities, electronic documents handling capacity and connectivity to hinterland. I provide evidence that those factors have a nonnegligible role as to competitiveness of container terminals. The paper applies a parametric statistics analysis to a dataset of 61 Asian large container terminals.I found that the container terminal's facilities and services level are positively associated with the port performance. By the fact that service factor variables are also significant, large scale of the container terminals by itself does not guarantee a systematic enhancement of their performance.