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With the aim of obtaining the financial efficiency of the system as a whole and of its Port Authorities, a DEA-Bootstrapping model study has been performed to determine the overall performance, a methodology used mainly to obtain terminal efficiencies and applied to the port system in this article. Economic inputs have been selected, such as total assets and net income from port charges, as opposed to operational outputs, as these are performance indicators; the tons moved in a year and the vessels housed in the same period. The conclusions drawn include, firstly, that the overall average financial efficiency of the Spanish port system was low for 2017 and 2018 (close to 0.44), primarily caused by the assets of which the system is composed. Secondly, the ports with the highest financial efficiency are consolidated ports in the Spanish port system, with large volumes of traffic and assets designed to attract new vessels and goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the changes operated by the Uruguay government of the Public Education concerning the management of the containers’ terminal at the Port of Montevideo and the administration of the commercial operations in the state company of hydrocarbons – ANCAP. We believe that it is possible to translate the transformations (illustrated here in their main aspects) into operations that apply prefigured and prescribed guidelines to the developments of the New Public Management, that function as one of the principles of the neoliberal model. This model is broadly understood as a widely and deeply spread normative order that modifies the atmospheres of the organizations based on a certain business rationality that supports its self-assertive logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Los indicadores clave de desempeño de los procesos o KPI (Key Performance Indicator) son herramientas de gestión ampliamente utilizadas por las empresas en todo el mundo para medir y evaluar el desempeño de sus procesos y gestionarlos de la manera más eficaz y eficiente posible. En el ámbito portuario, la tendencia general en el análisis de la explotación de una terminal de contenedores es comparar los ratios y parámetros internacionales que aparecen en la bibliografía internacional sobre explotación y planificación portuaria, criterios con los que se explotan, y así establecer lo que una terminal se aleja o se acerca en su explotación a los valores de estos parámetros internacionales. El objetivo de esta investigación es encontrar una relación entre los indicadores de productividad (KPI) y los indicadores de sostenibilidad en su ámbito medioambiental, de las terminales de contenedores del sistema portuario español. Se pretende encontrar una serie de indicadores para el estudio de las terminales de contenedores, desde el punto de vista de la gestión operativa y ambiental. La principal conclusión de la investigación es que las terminales de contenedores del sistema portuario español, son heterogéneas tanto en la gestión de la productividad como en la ambiental por lo que es muy difícil establecer relaciones claras. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are management tools widely used by companies around the world to measure and evaluate the performance of their processes and manage them in the most effective and efficient way possible. In the port areas, the general trend in the operation analysis of a container terminal is to compare the ratios and international parameters that appear in the international literature on port exploitation and planning. These criteria allow to work and to establish what operation of a terminal moves away or approaches from international parameters. The objective of this research is to find a relationship between KPI and sustainability indicators in their environmental field, of container terminals, applied this to the Spanish Port System. The aim is to find a series of indicators from the point of view of operational and environmental management. The main conclusion of the research is that the terminals of Spanish Port System are heterogeneous in productivity management and in environmental management, so it is very difficult to establish clear relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) in a maritime terminal of containers is defined as the feasible berth allocation of incoming vessels. In this work a model of fuzzy optimization for the BAP continuous and dynamical is developed. It is assumed that the time of arrival of the vessels is imprecise, in the sense that the vessels arrive early or late until a permissible tolerance. To represent the imprecision in the arrival of the vessels fuzzy set are used. For the solution of the model the α- cut method is applied. The proposed model has been coded in CPLEX and it has been evaluated for different instances. The obtained results show that the proposed model is useful to the managers of a maritime terminal of containers since they have at hand some berth plans with different degrees of earliness and delay allowed, optimized with regard to the waiting time and with the feature that, while greater the possibility of earliness or delay of a vessel is, a berth time is assigned to it supporting that possibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread use of management and operating ratios taken from international literature that do not conform to the reality of the Spanish port system makes it difficult to plan and manage the operation of Spanish container terminals. This is due to the lack of characterization of the physical parameters of the container terminals necessary for the operation. Container terminals in the Spanish port system is very heterogeneous and can not be characterized from international operating ratios, so we need a proper study to obtain general Spanish stage container port. The contribution of this article in the field of exploitation is characterized port Spanish container terminals port system from the values taken physical parameters (depth, size, number of cranes, etcétera). Basic operation of a terminal, allowing to know the reality of the Spanish port system. This study allows us to characterize, at present, the main physical parameters of operation of container terminals by establishing a management and operating ratios own reality characteristic of the port system in Spain that no previous study reported to date. The investigation is in the doctoral thesis [2]. The aim of the thesis is to obtain design parameters of container terminals using data from the application, through a systematic study of the terminal and performing a grouping of them based on these parameters, with a much broader scope to that developed in this article that only presents part of the thesis and aims to represent the values taken physical parameters operating container terminals in the Spanish port system and the relationship that occurs between them, these values are necessary when dealing with the planning of a terminal. The study conducted has revealed that Spanish container terminals are very heterogeneous, the stage is characterized by maritime terminals, small, medium and / or large volumes of traffic moving, not very high, as mooring line is equipped with clearance and available surface area is somewhat limiting. Future research should focus on improving the constraints presented in Spanish container terminals, pointing why there are these unique features and how these conditions the operation of both positive and negative terminals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]