In the light of the circumstances in the contemporary world of privatization, this research aims to study the effect of the privatization on the technical efficiency of container terminal using Stochastic Frontier Analysis, the study has applied on t
he most important Mediterranean container terminals. The results concluded that the technical efficiency rate was 76.17%. The full private ownership of container terminals does not reflect the high levels of technical efficiency. The full public ownership of container terminals also did not reflect the high levels of technical efficiency, but it is the best of the private sector. However, the technical efficiency of public container terminal can be improved with participation of the private sector, and advised partnership between the public sector and the private sector with rate of 38.5% according to the results of research.
This research addresses an important economic issue, which is the subject of partnership between the public and private sectors in economic facilities management, this research discusses the participatory experience in the maritime transport sector,
specifically in Lattakia port.
The research will address the reality of Lattakia port situation and its role in the Syrian foreign trade and the reasons for the application of participatory management of containers activity and targets set by the port company, and the nature of working in Lattakia container terminal.
The research aims to assess the experience of participatory in Lattakia port, through the analysis the nature of Lattakia international container terminal(LICT (company, and results achieved during the first three years, and the benefits that Lattakia port company achieved by the application of participatory, and will search to the important results and some recommendations for the development experience of participatory in Lattakia port particular, and the maritime transport sector in general.
Container terminals are different in the degree of service for container ships, which
increased recently and especially in the Mediterranean, also differ in use of the amount of
inputs required for operational process, which create the problem of d
eclining technical
efficiency of container terminals Mediterranean. Therefore, the researcher measured the
efficiency (12) a major container terminal in the Mediterranean in 2010, using the Data
Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Where the inputs: Number of quay cranes, and space of
terminal, and the output was the annual throughput of containers. The practical results
showed that the rate of technical efficiency – (CRS) was 49%, while the rate of technical
efficiency – (VRS) 69.3%. Tangier container terminal achieved the best level of technical
and scale efficiency, While Mersin, Algeciras, and Tartous achieved the technical
efficiency only, while remaining terminals did not achieve any efficiency, Therefore
advisable to reconsider in their used inputs to improve their efficiency.
