Weighting Key Factors for Port Congestion by AHP Method
Port congestion is one of the most important factors for measuring port performance and a critical problem that affects seaports' performance, productivity and efficiency levels as well. Determining the most important factors affecting the port congestion in detail contributes to the economi...
| Published in: | Journal of Eta Maritime Science |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UCTEA The Chamber of Marine Engineers
2020-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://jag.journalagent.com/jems/pdfs/JEMS-64426-ORIGINAL_RESEARCH_%28AR%29-GUNES.pdf |
| Summary: | Port congestion is one of the most important factors for measuring port performance and
a critical problem that affects seaports' performance, productivity and efficiency levels
as well. Determining the most important factors affecting the port congestion in detail
contributes to the economic and social growth of the ports. This paper makes an effort to
contribute to the existing literature by determining importance weights of factors leading
to port congestion as the unique study on the matter. Therefore, it is aimed to identify the
most important factors on port congestion according to the port state control, flag state
control and independent surveyors’ points of views. For this purpose, a literature research
was conducted on the factors causing port congestion and experts on the field were
consulted. Then the collected data were classified in a list and the determined factors have
been ordered with Analytic Hierarchy Process method by experts. The importance weights
of the factors have been identified and the most significant factors for port congestion have
been obtained with the pairwise comparison of the criteria. According to the results, it can
be argued that the most important main factors for port congestion are documentation
procedures, port operation and management, ship traffic inputs, port structure and strategy
and government relations, respectively |
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| ISSN: | 2147-2955 2148-9386 |