With the rapid rise of world trade, countries have tried to adapt their ports

to the requirements of the age, and have started to attach importance to port

infrastructures by updating their technologies. Countries engaged in maritime

transport have accelerated the efforts to eliminate the negativities and increase

the development by identifying the internal and external factors affecting the

performance of their ports. For this reason, port performance evaluation has

become an important issue in the literature in recent years. Today, it has become

multidimensional as a result of the combination of many concepts, leaving the

operational dimension. This concept, which increases competitiveness, has been

constantly explored by various disciplines in every field. As a result of these

researches, various definitions and explanations related to this subject have been

made. As a result of this diversity of disciplines, as the subject is interpreted

differently, conceptual confusion has occurred and definitions have entered into

each other.

The aim of this study is to examine the concept and criteria of port

performance evaluation, and to reveal the definitional differences between the

concepts of efficiency and productivity. In addition, it is to investigate efficiency

and productivity measurement methods, and to examine port performance

evaluation studies in the literature that cover these concepts. Academic studies,

articles, publications were researched and examined, their scope was analyzed

and a conceptual review study was put forward.