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Selection of Container Port Using ELECTRE Technique

International Journal of Operations and Logistics Management

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Title Selection of Container Port Using ELECTRE Technique
 
Creator Ergin, Ayfer
Eker, İpek
Alkan, Güler
 
Subject Port selection, ELECTRE, Container Transportation
 
Description Approximately 90% of world trade is carried by sea transportation. Increasing trend in trade with globalization leads to an increase in maritime transportation. As a result of the increase in trade volumes and enlarging ships emphasize the importance of ports which are forming the start and end points of transportation. In this context, the choice of ports that provide service and potential for ships have high importance in transportation network.The research presented in this paper applies an ELECTRE (Elemination and Choice Translating Reality) which is one of the multi-criteria decision methods to reveal and analyze the container port selection by global container carriers. In application, Turkey's largest container handling port is selected which is Ambarlı port region. Since all three container ports are in the same hinterland some criteria that are quite important such as hinterland economy, railway links, transport facilities, customs have not taken into account. In this way, criteria such as port productivity, port infrastructure facilities, price became more important. Results show that the most important criterion is Charge, and least important criteria are Port berthing time length and EDI computer system. X port is the highly ranked port according to method results.
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research
 
Date 2015-12-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/ijolm/article/view/607
 
Source International Journal of Operations and Logistics Management; Vol 4 No 4 (2015): December; 268-275
2309-8023
2310-4945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/ijolm/article/view/607/627
 
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