Decision making approach of direct feeder service via Port Klang in Malaysia
2018
Muhamad Nasir Rahmatdin | Noorul Shaiful Fitri Abdul Rahman | Mohammad Khairuddin Othman
The feeder service plays an important role in the Malaysian shipping service industry to link between the main line service and ports. It appears to be an important mode of transport within intra-Asian countries, regional, and local trades, which allows access to certain ports with ship draught restrictions. The feeder service is efficient in terms of flexibility, travelling time consumed between ports and fast cargo delivery to consignors. The issue now is how can Malaysian feeder operators truly sustain the future via trade and route assessment perspectives. Efficient route selection and strategic trading partners is the key to boosting the Malaysian feeder economy by considering the five main factors of markets, time, miscellaneous, service and cost. The purpose of this research is to discover a benchmark of current assessments of overall direct feeder service of route parameters which connect Port Klang and five potential ports or trade partners as alternatives. The ports selected are Ho Chi Minh City, Laem Chabang, Jakarta, Yangon, and Chittagong due to their consistent previous years of container import and export activities. A combination method, known as the AHPFuzzy Link Based and Evidential Reasoning method, is applied in this research. The results show that the Port Klang – Laem Chabang route is the most preferred sailing route that can optimize feeder vessel utilization, reduce environmental pollution, and potentially gain high returns to both feeder operators and ports. This research contributes in terms of providing indicator of routes and a potential port appraisal case study of the feeder service in Malaysia by using a decision making approach.
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