A Study on Selection Criteria of Container Ports in Yangon
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Myanmar is a South East Asia Nation with a long coastal area (1930 km) in which 9 coastal ports catering to seaborne and coastal trade. Even though ports are privatized by other companies for supporting facilities, it is solely administered by Myanmar Port Authority (MPA), which is administered under the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The Ports in Yangon is known as Myanmar’s business hub as it hosts 90% of country’s trade. The aim of this study is to determine the influencing factors in selecting container ports by port users and to prioritize the port criteria to be selected for containers handling. Six port service criteria are set up for 6 terminals in Yangon. As this study used AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), the decision problem is structured in three level of hierarchy. The respondents are from port users such as shipping lines, freight forwarders, NVOCC as well as experts, government officials and port operators. The scope of this paper is limited to container ports in Yangon only and excludes other types of ports (GC, oil, etc) and other ports out of Yangon. The findings will reveal which criteria are given priority to choose the container ports in Yangon and what are the reasons for not choosing. This will also be of interest to port operators and officials for future development of port efficiency. Primary data was collected via structured questionnaires from respondents in which port selection criteria are weighed by experts’opinion and prioritized by the port users as per their needs.
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Myanmar is a South East Asia Nation with a long coastal area (1930 km) in which 9 coastal ports catering to seaborne and coastal trade. Even though ports are privatized by other companies for supporting facilities, it is solely administered by Myanmar Port Authority (MPA), which is administered under the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The Ports in Yangon is known as Myanmar’s business hub as it hosts 90% of country’s trade. The aim of this study is to determine the influencing factors in selecting container ports by port users and to prioritize the port criteria to be selected for containers handling. Six port service criteria are set up for 6 terminals in Yangon. As this study used AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), the decision problem is structured in three level of hierarchy. The respondents are from port users such as shipping lines, freight forwarders, NVOCC as well as experts, government officials and port operators. The scope of this paper is limited to container ports in Yangon only and excludes other types of ports (GC, oil, etc) and other ports out of Yangon. The findings will reveal which criteria are given priority to choose the container ports in Yangon and what are the reasons for not choosing. This will also be of interest to port operators and officials for future development of port efficiency. Primary data was collected via structured questionnaires from respondents in which port selection criteria are weighed by experts’opinion and prioritized by the port users as per their needs.
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