The proposed alternative DEA approach will provide information about the efficiency in three stages: productivity, profitability and overall output in order to support management decisions of seaports operators, their competitive strategy and to better understand the real source of efficiency/inefficiency.
Seaport efficiency is not only a powerful management tool for seaport operators, but also constitutes a most important input for informing regional and national seaport planning and operations [14, 35].
139th Transportation Detachment, Fort Totten, seaport operations.
Seaport's operators would not comment.
Seaport's operators -- Baruch Mappa, Martin Rosenberg and Emil Klein -- said through their lawyer they would not be interviewed.
After having done little over the years to punish Seaport's operators, the Pataki administration responded to the investigation by The Times by beginning disciplinary proceedings.
Ms. Zelhof also criticized the department for allowing Seaport's operators -- Baruch Mappa, Martin Rosenberg and Emil Klein -- to surrender their license and pay only a $20,000 fine despite the extensive violations.
Amid budget cuts and layoffs, ship maintenance was deferred, Pier 15 crumbled and had to be closed and the lights that shone on the ships at night were turned off because the museum, which gets no direct financing from the Rouse Company, the Seaport's commercial operator, couldn't afford to keep them on.
Ultimately, no charges were brought against Seaport or its operators, and leading state officials brushed aside Mr. Hynes's damning portrait of the adult home system.
Justice Harkavy did allow a small part of the case to move forward, ruling that the attorney general could continue to seek payment of fines that had been assessed earlier against Seaport's former operators.
