Relatively standard methodologies can help to measure the efficiency gains from reforming the organization of port infrastructure, and these measures can be used to promote competition between ports. But building the database needed to measure efficiency is a major undertaking for developing...

The authors show how relatively standard methodologies can help to measure the efficiency gains from reforming the organization of port infrastructure, how those measures can be used to promote competition between ports, and how competition can be built into an incentive-driven regulatory...