Evaluating the Competitiveness of Qinzhou Port on Thailandguangxi Route Under Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation

This paper aims to, through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), analyze the efficiency and competitive position of the Qinzhou Port, compared with the rest eight ports of containerization in Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation (PBGEC) region. Based on the introduction, a literature review is presented thereafter. We innovatively adopt the Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR) model, Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) model to determine the overall efficiency, pure technical and scale efficiency, and then the Super Efficiency model has been used to indicate the efficiency ranking of the 9 ports in the PBGEC. The result implies that the Qinzhou port exists input redundancy and insufficient output due to its scale efficiency. Also, Qinzhou port is posed in an inferior position in its competitiveness. Further research is needed for how to overcome such weakness and then enhance the overall efficiency and competitiveness accordingly. At the end of this paper, limitations and recommendations are also presented.