AHP study on the container stowage

• Main Authors: Ting-Ting Chen, 陳婷婷
• Other Authors: Kun-Ching Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28271754888897191639

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 運輸科學系 === 99 === The global international freight transportation almost dependents on air transport and shipping. However, most of shipping companies used containers for their goods transportation. Container transportation originated in the early eighteenth century, after a long period of development, container transportation is more convenient and faster in loading and unloading, it enhanced the higher economic and convenience for shipping business. To enhance the container carrying capacity and reducing the cost of container transportation, large container ships will be the best policy for container transportation. Also, it means shipping container loading and unloading capacity will be increased in every port. Relatively, the more berthing time it increases, the more berthing fees it costed. In present, “artificial stowage” has been used for various shipping companies, and pre-set cargo plans are used for container ship stowage. Basically, artificial stowage is decided accordance with the Port Captain or Chief officer their self extensive experience. Hence, for more rapid and enhance efficiency on stowage operation. In this study, the expert survey questionnaires were used for establishing the stowage index of container planning, as the reference to enhance the efficiency of container ship stowage. This study, “ships state”, “ships stability” and “shifting cost” these three criteria are used to establish the stowage index for loading and unloading will be more efficiency. The multi-criteria decision making and AHP methods are used to establish the efficiency ranking of stowage index for container stowage planning.