The impact of governance of the efficiency of The Baltic States' major ports

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to evaluate port governance models within the Baltic States at European Union-level trans-European core network ports (TEN-T) following the principle of commercially-oriented corporations in public ownership and with the overall direction of independent port management for landlord configuration ports, quantitatively assessing the impact of governance on port performance results, analysing and comparing seaports and determining the best performer within the region. In the course of the work, port performance results were analysed from both an operational and a financial perspective, port authorities were ranked according to the results, and recommendations for better performance were proposed. The results of this research may be of value to port authorities, policymakers and scholars.