The Performance of Western Australian Ports

作     者：Malcolm Tull Fred Affleck 

作者机构：Murdoch Business SchoolMurdoch University South Street Planning and Transport Research CentreCurtin University of TechnologyGPO Box U1987Perth WA 6845Australia Professor 

出 版 物：《中国海洋经济评论》 (Ocean Economics Review of China)

年 卷 期：2008年第02卷第1期

页      面：1-33页

学科分类：12[管理学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 08[工学] 082303[工学-交通运输规划与管理] 0823[工学-交通运输工程] 

基　　金：funded by the Department for Planning and Infrastructure WA but the authors and not the Department are responsible for the views expressed Mr Sarjit Singh,Murdoch University, for research assistance with this project 

主　　题：Australia ports ownership governance regulation pe 

摘      要：The aim of this paper is to undertake an analysis of the performance of Western Australia’s port *** context for this research is the report released in February 2006 by Access Economics (A scorecard of the design of economic regulation of infrastructure) for the Australian Council for Infrastructure *** report was critical of the regime for economic regulation of Western Australia’s ports,and by implication of the potential quality and efficiency of service delivery to their principal ***,a reading of the Access Economics report and supporting data suggests that its analysis takes no account of the regulatory frameworks for port authorities in Western Austral ia(WA) contained in the Port Authorities Act 1999(WA) and elsewhere,or of the actual economic and physical performance of WA port *** the light of this apparently flawed analysis of the effectiveness of port regulation in WA,it is timely to review the performance of ports under the current governance structures,and to place the Access Economics report in a broader empirical performance-based context. While there is no regime for direct regulation of access to WA’s port infrastructure,it is argued that provisions in WA’s legislation governing the management of ports provide much of the focus,transparency and accountability required of an adequate regulatory *** current dominant Australian model of public ownership,with ports acting as strategic managers subject to statutory and governmental oversight,offers a viable alternative to complete privatisation and specialised regulatory *** ports arguably can emerge from a variety of institutional frameworks-there is no single ownership or administrative structure that fits all circumstances.