Author(s)

Mahdi Birafane¹, Moad El Abdi²

¹College of Transport and Communications, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.
²Department of Physics Engineering and Science, Shanghai, China.

The efficiency of 8 seaports in the Kingdom of Morocco region was evaluated. Two associated studies were conducted based on data collected for 4 years (2014-2017), Standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method was used in the first analysis through CCR and BCC models, and thus a scale of efficiency analysis was used in a second analysis. By using both methods, enhanced insight into the efficiency situation is collected, proving subsequently that a majority of the container ports and terminals in the Kingdom of Morocco are found to be technically inefficient. The research concludes through returns to scale method how port resources should be utilized in the aim to impulse inefficient ports perform better.

Moroccan Seaports, Data Envelopment Analysis, Seaports Efficiency, BCC Model, CCR Model, Returns to Scale Method

Birafane, M. and Abdi, M. (2019) Efficiency of Moroccan Seaports: Application of DEA Using Window Analysis. Engineering, 11, 107-118. doi: 10.4236/eng.2019.112009.