Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Pages 396
Today's international container shipping is a highly competitive industry operated under dynamic changing environment. It is important for shipping companies to continually improve their performance in order to maintain their current and future competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of the top-3 container shipping companies in Taiwan by using financial ratio and intellectual capital, based on the data collected during year 2003-2005. Grey relation analysis is used to select the representative indicators and then TOPSIS is used to rank the performance. Suggestions to enhance performance of each company are then proposed following the results of analysis.
