Efficiency Assessment of Jazan Port Based on Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

Transport sector has an important role in all economic countries, especially marine ports that represent the backbone of any country and it has lot of beneficial effect on development process. The economic impact of port sector is usually measured by lot of indicators for example value addition and employment. But in this paper, I argue for increased attention by maritime economists to review, analyze , and summarized port efficiency by using DEAP(Data Envelopment Analysis Programs). This analysis is made by compiling input & output table collected from statistical report. The author has used DEA program to measure ports efficiency by suggesting some constraints on inputs and outputs. The efficiency is determined through division of weights of sum of outputs to the sum of inputs, where we assume the weights of inputs and outputs are greater than zero. In the case of the Saudi Arabian ports and their efficiency , the results show that Jazan port is considered inefficient plus most of the ports are also inefficient. The study tries to suggest some benefits provided the government is interested to develop and apply them.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s1p320