From combining the concepts of analytic hierarchy process(AHP), entropy, ideal and anti-ideal solutions, an operation performance evaluation model for container terminal is developed. At first, a hierarchical structrue with five operation performance indices and ten evaluating criteria as well as three container terminals is constructed. Then, the AHP is used to assess the subjective weightings of five operation performance indices and ten criteria. The objective weights of the evaluating criteria represented in the upper level of container terminals are obtained through the method of entropy measure of importance. Furthermore, by means of aggregating subjective and objective assessment about criteria weightings, the synthetic weights for each criterion can be obtained. And, citing the concepts of ideal and anti-ideal solutions, the value of relative closeness of various container terminals versus ideal solution can be calculated. Based on the value of relative closeness, the ranking order of operation performance for various container terminals can be obtained. Finally, a practical operation performance evaluation about the Keelung Port's three container terminals was used to demonstrate the computational process of this model developed in this paper.