Navegação de cabotagem: verificação da eficiência por análise envoltória de dados e identificação de boas práticas dos benchmarks

Abstract

This monograph verifies the efficiency of maritime cabotage (also known as Short Sea Shipping – SSS) in Brazil through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and presents benchmarks best practices that can guide infrastructure policies and investments. Its objective is to quantify the need for growth of Brazilian cabotage so that it can be considered efficient and its participation in the cargo transport matrix increased, which was 11% in 2015. The research was conducted in three stages, the first consisting of definition of the variables to be used and the countries to be submitted to the DEA tool. In the second stage, the output-oriented DEA CCR method was selected and the calculations that indicated the inefficiency of Brazilian maritime cabotage in relation to several other countries of similar economic expression were performed, and the Netherlands and Turkey were indicated as benchmarks in the selected sample space. The third stage of the research identified benchmarks best practices that could be adopted by Brazil, and the European Union (EU), for its great influence on benchmarks, was included in this stage. The conclusion of the survey was that the best practices identified are derived from policies to encourage Short Sea Shipping and intermodality in implementation for at least two decades and, even accounting for 33% of the cargo transport matrix, the EU seeks its increase due to its greater sustainability and lower costs, being a valid reference for the improvement of the activity in Brazil.