Performance Analysis of Port Companies Study case: Annaba and Quebec Ports

Abstract

The development and modernization of maritime ports has become one of the main concerns of port authorities. In order to better see the potential for improving port logistics, we plan to compare foreign and local technical efficiency. The idea is to compare technical efficiency, more particularly technical efficiency, between terminals located in two different regions, a first region of Annaba Algeria and second region Quebec Canada. Based on Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on a set of quality of service performance indicators, measured over a two-year period, it results that the terminals of the two ports Annaba and Quebec have average efficiency scores by the model (SFA) between 53% and 63% respectively and for the DEA model, we find that the model of constant scale (CRS) very close for the two ports of the order of 0,19 and the variable scale model (VRS) of 0.87 for Annaba and 0.98 for the Port of Quebec. The result is that both ports are inefficient, given the complexity of port activities and the irregularity of the transport market