Container transportation is one of the essential elements of modern ren aissance in
shipping business in the world. Due to its extremely important, most countries have
focused (especially the developed ones) on development of their maritime fleets
and ports,
in order to be able to keep up and keep the remarkable development and extremely rapid
progress in containerization technology.
Port capabilities should be commensurate with the developments in maritime transport
fleets and their transport patterns represented by container vessels that require advanced
port services such as high efficiency of workers and cranes, and modern and fast
performance specialized equipments, and modern electronic systems.
The study addressed the basic criteria for the level of services in the container terminals
that have been identified in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNICTAD 2012, These criteria were applied to Lattakia International Container Terminal
(LICT), where the relative waiting time ε and productivity coefficient (P) were
calculated for the duration of the ship's stay in the port, and the statistical indicators of the
times of ships at the Lattakia International Container Terminal and the container handling
rates was studied during the period Extending from 2014 to 2017, The study concluded
that the average wait time relative ε achieved the value of 0.0553, which put it at level B
which is the second level of four levels, A, B, C, D, in addition to the level B is also
achieved by productivity coefficient (P) and the value of 54.4 during the The study period.
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.
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.
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.
