Measuring terminal efficiency: Case of fishing ports in Malaysia

Abstract

This study aims to measure the efficiency of a fishing port terminal in utilizing their resources to achieve better productivity and better strategic decisions making by incorporating Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), using both BBC and CCR indexes for measuring the efficiency level. Based on the CCRI efficiency level of each terminal, four fishing terminals were located at an efficient frontier while another 55.56% of the fishing terminals are inefficient. For BCCI, 66.66% of the DMU is efficient. By looking at the efficiency, this study determines which specific terminals need to augment their inputs or outputs to achieve efficiency level. At the same time, this study is also looking onto other seaport terminals which have similar facilities in term of infrastructures and services like container terminal where both fishing terminal and container terminal have cranes, number of berth and storage capacity.