Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Pages 158
The transportation industries should how to know well the trade characteristic of international transportation and find their competing abilities. Therefore, this study uses the data envelopment analysis to measure competitive efficiency performances of the total technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, return to scale and scale efficiency for international marine/air cargo of main 40 import/export trade countries during 2006. The results show the higher efficiency performance of air cargo for export/import trade countries than efficiency performance of marine cargo for export/import trade countries. The efficiency performance of export trade areas is much better than the efficiency performances of import trade areas. We also find the Pearson correlation coefficient of variables between total technical efficiency and cargo transportation fare is very high near 1, this figure show that transportation fares of trade areas are more high, the total technical efficiency of trade areas are more high.
