The growth and development of world economy has increasingly depended in shipping and ports are an important link in this process. This study aims to explore the application of performance-based budgeting system in the ports of Spain. To this end, we performed a study on the budget model of the Port System and State Ownership of a case study in the Port of Valencia. The results show that changes in the budget generated a greater integration of performance measures with budget appropriations, detailing the process at the operational level, which includes investment projects. The level of control allows the model to improve the evaluation of the results by including other measures of performance as well as revenues and costs, which can be compared with other ports in the country and abroad.
budgeting; investment budgeting; performance; port
